Ashford
Ashford has 2.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,351 homes. A 300 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 1,051,000 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCL Label, Foster Road - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.9 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
| John Lewis At Home, Fougeres Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| Tesco Moatfield Meadow | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2019-02 | 7.4 yrs |
| Wembdon Business Centre, Bower Road - Solar Arrays | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-01 | 2.6 yrs |
| Consort Frozen Foods Limited, Wotton Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| Ashford Cattle Market Co, Monument Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-07 | 3.0 yrs |
| Newtown Road - Solar Panels & Air Source Heat Pumps | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Wyvern Way, Henwood Industrial Estate - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2023-02 | 3.5 yrs |
Plus 2 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forty Acre Wood, The Street - Battery Energy Storage System | 300 MW | refused 2025 | could supply ≈1,051,000 homes |
What this page does not show
Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.
Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.
Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →
What has Sojan Joseph said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →