CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Rutherglen
Rutherglen has 1.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,600 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2024; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
Ranks 373 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downiebrae Road, Rutherglen - Battery Energy Storage SystemBattery Box Limited | Battery | 150 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00005091 |
| Seath Road, Rutherglen - Battery StorageGreen Power Consultants | Battery | 50 MW | Refused by South Lanarkshire Council in 2024Who can move it: South Lanarkshire Council · planning ref P/23/1214 |
| Dalmarnock Road - Battery StorageEcoDev Group Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2024 · planning ref P/21/1525 |
| Newton Farm, Westburn Road - Battery Storage FacilityApatura – GPC 676 Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Refused by South Lanarkshire Council in 2026Who can move it: South Lanarkshire Council · planning ref P/25/0758 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutherglen | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| East Kilbride and Strathaven | 38 MW | 264 MW | £3.1m |
| Hamilton and Clyde Valley | 2.1 MW | 61 MW | £170k |
| Glasgow South | 0 MW | 3 MW | not visible |
| Glasgow East | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Coatbridge and Bellshill | 0.6 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
East Kilbride and Strathaven next door has 38 MW waiting, more than Rutherglen's 1.5 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.