Beverley and Holderness
Beverley and Holderness has 218 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 79,000 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,012 homes. There is also 120 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carr House Farm, Drove Lane - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| Turf Carr Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2024-05 | 2.2 yrs |
| Kenley Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Field House Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 15,000 homes | 40.0 MW | 2022-07 | 4.1 yrs |
| Hull Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 9,300 homes | 25.7 MW | 2015-10 | 10.8 yrs |
| Bowmar Carr Road, Burton Pidsea - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.0 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Church Hill Farm, Church Hill - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.8 MW | 2024-01 | 2.6 yrs |
| Wingfield Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
| Grange Farm, Finchcroft Lane - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| Cold Harbour Farm, Cold Harbour Road - Solar PV Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-04 | 2.3 yrs |
Plus 11 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staithes Road, Saltend -Battery Energy Storage System | 240 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈841,000 homes |
| Kingston International Business Park - Battery Energy Storage System | 200 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈701,000 homes |
| Field House Solar Farm | 40 MW | approved, not built 2022 | could supply ≈140,000 homes |
| Froghall Farm, Wyton Road - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage | 20 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈70,000 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 Graham Stuart said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →