Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West has 1.3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 500 homes. 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,329 homes. There is also 24 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 388 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auchentiber Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemApatura GPC 700 Limited | Battery | 700 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2029, 5 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission · earliest connection 2029 · planning ref ECU00004979 |
| Houston Solar PV Farm & Energy Storage FacilityThe Old Rectory | Solar | 75 MW27,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00004825 |
| Flatterton Farm, Flatterton Road - Battery StorageBig Battery (Flatterton Farm) Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/0205/IC |
| Dougliehill Water Treatment Works, Dougliehill Road - Battery StorageBluestone Energy | Battery | 49 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/0033/IC |
| Knockair, Dougliehill Road - Solar FarmRenewco Power | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Inverclyde Council · planning ref 25/0125/IC |
| Houston Solar PV Farm & Energy Storage FacilityThe Old Rectory | Battery | 25 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00004825 |
| Knockair, Dougliehill Road - Battery Storage FacilityRenewco Power | Battery | 24 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Inverclyde Council · planning ref 25/0125/IC |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West | 1.3 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| North Ayrshire and Arran | 74 MW | 105 MW | not visible |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 102 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North next door has 102 MW waiting, more than Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West's 1.3 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.