Glasgow South
Glasgow South has 3 MW of renewables running, enough for 2,600 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,435 homes.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow South | 0 MW | 3 MW | not visible |
| East Kilbride and Strathaven | 38 MW | 264 MW | £3.1m |
| East Renfrewshire | 0.5 MW | 361 MW | £4.6m |
| Rutherglen | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Glasgow South West | 1.1 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Glasgow East | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
East Kilbride and Strathaven next door has 38 MW waiting, more than Glasgow South's 0 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 1 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.