CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Edinburgh West
Edinburgh West has 12 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 4,500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 44,012 homes.
Ranks 216 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Terminal 1 Edinburgh Airport - Solar FarmCity of Edinburgh Council / Edinburgh Airport/ Ampyr Energy UK Development Limited | Solar | 9 MW3,300 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/05261/PNE |
| Chariot Drive, Newbridge Road - Solar PanelsNuveen Real Estate | Solar | 1.2 MW400 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/03835/FUL |
| Newbridge - Ground mounted solar Pv panelsScottish Water | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01015/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh West | 12 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Livingston | 118 MW | 116 MW | not visible |
| Edinburgh South West | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bathgate and Linlithgow | 46 MW | 9.8 MW | not visible |
| Edinburgh North and Leith | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Livingston next door has 118 MW waiting, more than Edinburgh West's 12 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.