CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bassetlaw
Bassetlaw has 114 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 41,000 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,676 homes.
Ranks 53 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elkesley Southbound, Elkesley - Battery Energy StoraMespil Solar Energy | Battery | 480 MW |
Waiting 1.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Bassetlaw Council |
| Gainsborough Road, Saundby - Battery Storage FacilitEnso Energy / Cero Generation | Battery | 120 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
| Gainsborough Road, Saundby - Solar FarmEnso Energy / Cero Generation | Solar | 28,000 homes 78 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
What else is in the briefing
- All 10 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How Bassetlaw compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.