CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Paisley and Renfrewshire South has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,518 homes.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neilston Greener Grid Park - Phase 2Statkraft UK LTD | Battery | 750 MW | Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2029 · planning ref ECU00004988 |
| Neilston - Battery StorageApatura (GPC 1119 Ltd) | Battery | 150 MW | Its grid connection date of 2025 has passed and it is still not generatingWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission · earliest connection 2025 · planning ref ECU00004868 |
| Neilston Greener Grid ParkStatkraft UK LTD | Battery | 50 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/0034/PP |
| Well Street - Battery StorageLarkfleet Group | Battery | 50 MW | Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2028 · planning ref 23/0018/PP |
| Middleton Farm Cottage, Middleton Road - Solar Photovoltaic ArrayBluestone Energy Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/0232/PP |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| North Ayrshire and Arran | 74 MW | 105 MW | not visible |
| East Renfrewshire | 0.5 MW | 361 MW | £4.6m |
| Glasgow South West | 1.1 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 102 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West | 1.3 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North next door has 102 MW waiting, more than Paisley and Renfrewshire South's 0 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.