Perth and Kinross-shire
Perth and Kinross-shire has 43 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 17,000 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, £4.3m across the constituency's 47,153 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
Ranks 154 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brunt Hill Wind Farm & Battery StorageE Power Limited | Onshore wind | 130 MW113,000 homes | Waiting 2.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · earliest connection 2031 · planning ref ECU00004654 |
| Glentarken Wind FarmSSE Renewables Wind Farms UK Ltd | Onshore wind | 104 MW91,000 homes | Waiting 18 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · earliest connection 2031 · planning ref ECU00004700 |
| Dupplin Solar - Solar ArrayBLC Energy | Solar | 98 MW35,000 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00006264 |
| Brunt Hill Wind Farm & Battery StorageE Power Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 2.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00004654 |
| Glentarken Wind FarmSSE Renewables Wind Farms UK Ltd | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 18 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00004700 |
| Newburgh Road, Abernethy - Battery Energy Storage FacilityOpdenergy | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01386/FLM |
| Kinnon Park Farm, Methven - Solar Farm & Battery StorageNamene Solar | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Refused by Perth and Kinross Council in 2026Who can move it: Perth and Kinross Council · planning ref 24/01188/FLM |
| Dormitories Star Inn Farm, Mains Of Fowlis - Battery Energy StorageEpsilon Generation | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00539/FULM |
| Newburgh Road, Abernethy - Battery StorageCBS Solar Assets UK Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00746/FLM |
| Newhouse Farm - Energy Storage FacilityIntelligent Land Investments Group | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01071/FLM |
| Old Gallows Road - Battery storageForesight Group | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/00235/FLM |
| Jamesfield Garden Centre, Newburgh - Battery Energy StorageHarmony Energy Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Perth and Kinross Council · planning ref 26/00067/FLM |
Plus 15 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perth and Kinross-shire | 43 MW | 44 MW | not visible |
| Stirling and Strathallan | 52 MW | 193 MW | not visible |
| Dunfermline and Dollar | 36 MW | 5.1 MW | not visible |
| Glenrothes and Mid Fife | 121 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| North East Fife | 21 MW | 7.1 MW | not visible |
| Dundee Central | 52 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Glenrothes and Mid Fife next door has 121 MW waiting, more than Perth and Kinross-shire's 43 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.