Hamilton and Clyde Valley
Hamilton and Clyde Valley was paid £170k last year to switch off its wind farms, because the wires south were full. That would cover every local household's electricity for 2.1 days. A further 2.1 MW of approved clean power (all solar) is still waiting to be built here: enough to supply a year's electricity to 700 homes. A 50 MW battery approved at Cornhills Farm, Muttonhole Road in 2025 would store power that is currently wasted; it has not been built.
Ranks 341 of 650 for clean power approved and not built; 18 of 19 among seats with visible switch-off payments.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coalburn Energy - Battery StorageAlcemi Storage Development Limited | Battery | 500 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref ECU00003458 |
| Rogerhill Solar and Battery Energy Storage SystemGreen Switch Capital Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref P/25/0018 |
| Rogerhill Solar and Battery Energy Storage SystemGreen Switch Capital Limited | Solar | 100 MW36,000 homes | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref P/25/0018 |
| Cornhills Farm, Muttonhole Road - Battery StorageBig Battery (Sheriff Faulds Farm 1) Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/23/1613 |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton and Clyde Valley | 2.1 MW | 61 MW | £170k |
| Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 913 MW | 1,451 MW | £15m |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 82 MW | 283 MW | £900k |
| East Kilbride and Strathaven | 38 MW | 264 MW | £3.1m |
| Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke | 80 MW | 215 MW | £2.4m |
| Rutherglen | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale next door has 913 MW waiting, more than Hamilton and Clyde Valley's 2.1 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
- 3 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.