CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Edinburgh South West
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 developer | Tech | Size | Why 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
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh South West | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 913 MW | 1,451 MW | £15m |
| Midlothian | 4.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Livingston | 118 MW | 116 MW | not visible |
| Edinburgh South | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | 0.2 MW | 0.2 MW | not 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
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.