Boston and Skegness
Boston and Skegness has 125 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 46,000 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, £4.6m across the constituency's 50,378 homes. There is also 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low Farm Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2021-03 | 5.4 yrs |
| Vicarage Drove - Solar farm & Battery storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
| Mallows Lane - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 3,600 homes | 10.0 MW | 2022-12 | 3.6 yrs |
| Boston Landfill, Wyberton - Solar PV Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 3,500 homes | 9.7 MW | 2022-01 | 4.5 yrs |
| Marsh Farm, Sea Lane - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 700 homes | 1.9 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| The Hollies Solar Park - Skegness - extension | Solar Photovoltaics | 500 homes | 1.4 MW | 2013-12 | 12.7 yrs |
| Riverside Industrial Estate - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.9 MW | 2022-06 | 4.1 yrs |
| Greenyard Frozen, Marsh Lane - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| Southview Leisure Park, Burgh Road - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2024-06 | 2.1 yrs |
| TB Containers Limited, Brenton Villa - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2023-01 | 3.5 yrs |
| Station Road, Swineshead - Solar PV System | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-12 | 4.6 yrs |
| E & M Hames, Hawthorn Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bicker Fen Bess, Vicarage Drove - Battery Storage | 400 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈1,402,000 homes |
| Bicker Drove - Battery Energy Storage System | 100 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| Vicarage Drove - Solar farm & Battery storage | 20 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈72,000 homes |
| Manor Farm Energy Storage | 10 MW | approved, not built 2017 | could supply ≈35,000 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 Richard Tice said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →