CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Edinburgh South
Edinburgh South 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,786 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Existing Kaimes Substation, Old Burdiehouse Road - Battery StorageKaimes Renewable Energy Park | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 2.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: City of Edinburgh Council · planning ref 24/01489/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh South | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Midlothian | 4.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Edinburgh South West | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | 0.2 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
Midlothian next door has 4.2 MW waiting, more than Edinburgh South'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.