CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Midlothian
Midlothian has 4.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,009 homes.
Ranks 275 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salters Battery Energy Storage SystemBuccleuch Group | Battery | 200 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2031, 6 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission · earliest connection 2031 · planning ref ECU00004962 |
| Penicuik, Moorfoot Hills - Torfichen Wind FarmRES Limited | Onshore wind | 108 MW94,000 homes | Waiting 2.7 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00004661 |
| Penicuik, Moorfoot Hills - Torfichen Wind FarmRES Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 2.7 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00004661 |
| Easter BushUniversity of Edinburgh (Estates Department) | Solar | 3 MW1,100 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 19/00022/DPP |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midlothian | 4.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 913 MW | 1,451 MW | £15m |
| Edinburgh South West | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Edinburgh South | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 85 MW | 685 MW | £7.0m |
| Lothian East | 0.4 MW | 216 MW | £3.2m |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale next door has 913 MW waiting, more than Midlothian's 4.2 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.