Stirling and Strathallan
Stirling and Strathallan has 52 MW of clean power (almost all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 42,000 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,517 homes. There is also 187 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 122 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenside Farm - Battery StorageApatura | Battery | 400 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 ECU00005047 |
| Shindour, Feddal Hill Wood - Battery Energy Storage FacilityWhirlwind Energy Storage Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02231/FLM |
| Shindour - Energy Storage FacilityGigabox Developments Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/00756/FLM |
| Earnieside Farmhouse, Dunning Glen - Wind FarmGalileo Green Energy Scotland Limited | Onshore wind | 48 MW42,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01193/FLM |
| Killin Switching Station, Boreland - Boreland Energy Storage ParkBoreland Energy Limited | Battery | 43 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00246/FUL |
| Earlsburn Avenue - Earlsburn Wind Farm ExtensionNaturalis Energy / REG Wind Power / Falck Renewables | Onshore wind | 34 MW30,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00004510 |
| Easter Cringate Cottage, Polmaise Road - Wind TurbinesDrummarnock Wind Farm Limited | Onshore wind | 30 MW26,000 homes | Waiting 24 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Stirling Council · planning ref 24/00494/FUL |
| Shelloch Wind FarmForce 9 Energy Partners Llp | Onshore wind | 24 MW21,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/00840/FUL |
| Strathallan Wind FarmGreen Cat Renewables | Onshore wind | 21 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 15/01484/FLM |
| Earlsburn Avenue - Earlsburn Wind Farm ExtensionNaturalis Energy / REG Wind Power / Falck Renewables | Battery | 18 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00004510 |
| Acharn Forest - Battery StorageBiomass Energy Renewables Llp | Battery | 9.9 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2023/0372/DET |
| Rowan Gate - Solar FarmBlackford Farms | Solar | 7 MW2,500 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00795/FLL |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling and Strathallan | 52 MW | 193 MW | not visible |
| Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch | 1.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Mid Dunbartonshire | 0 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
| Falkirk | 7.5 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
| West Dunbartonshire | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber | 384 MW | 460 MW | £1.7m |
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber next door has 384 MW waiting, more than Stirling and Strathallan's 52 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.