CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
West Dunbartonshire
West Dunbartonshire 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,878 homes.
Ranks 478 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Braidfield Road, Hardgate - Battery Storage FacilityIntelligent Land Investments Group Plc | Battery | 100 MW | Waiting 20 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00006053 |
| Vale of Leven Wind FarmCoriolis Energy Limited | Onshore wind | 70 MW61,000 homes | Waiting 2.8 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00003468 |
| Vale of Leven Wind FarmCoriolis Energy Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Waiting 2.8 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00003468 |
| Aggreko, Stirling Road - Solar PanelsAggreko | Solar | 8.8 MW3,200 homes | Waiting 3.9 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: West Dunbartonshire Council · planning ref DC22/168/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Dunbartonshire | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Glasgow West | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Mid Dunbartonshire | 0 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
| Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber | 384 MW | 460 MW | £1.7m |
| Stirling and Strathallan | 52 MW | 193 MW | not visible |
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber next door has 384 MW waiting, more than West Dunbartonshire's 0.5 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
- 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.