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Edinburgh South West

MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Labour) Scotland Data to July 2026

Edinburgh South West has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.5m across the constituency's 49,162 homes.

Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Riccarton Mains Road - Battery Energy StorageMiller Developments Battery 150 MW Waiting 16 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00005144

Compared with its neighbours

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
Edinburgh South West 0 MW0 MWnot visible
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale 913 MW1,451 MW£15m
Midlothian 4.2 MW0 MWnot visible
Livingston 118 MW116 MWnot visible
Edinburgh South 0 MW0 MWnot visible
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh 0.2 MW0.2 MWnot visible

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale next door has 913 MW waiting, more than Edinburgh South West's 0 MW.

The rest of the briefing

  • Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
  • What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
  • Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
  • 2 story angles for local reporting
  • A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
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