Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Paisley and Renfrewshire North has 102 MW of clean power (mostly onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 72,000 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,222 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2024; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
Ranks 66 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Fulwood Energy StorageLightsourcebp | Battery | 400 MW | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00006230 |
| Artfield Forest Wind FarmStatkraft UK | Onshore wind | 67 MW59,000 homes | Cannot connect to the grid until 2030, 7 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission · earliest connection 2030 · planning ref ECU00003245 |
| Barnwell, Wright Street - Battery Energy StorageP3P Partners Llp | Battery | 50 MW | Refused by Renfrewshire Council in 2024Who can move it: Renfrewshire Council · planning ref 24/0153/PP |
| Laigh Park Water Treatment Works - Battery Energy Storage SystemBluestone Energy | Battery | 50 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Renfrewshire Council · planning ref 25/0779/PP |
| South Clyde Energy CentreFortum (formerly Peel Environmental) | EfW Incineration | 45 MW | Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2026 · planning ref 12/01293/DC |
| Glasgow Airport Solar FarmAGS Airports Limited | Solar | 20 MW7,200 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/0746/PP |
| East Fulwood Greenock Road - Solar FarmSpringfield Limited / Aggreko | Solar | 14 MW5,200 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/0582/PP |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 102 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Glasgow South West | 1.1 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West | 1.3 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.