No.328 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Naz Shah (Labour) England

Bradford West

Bradford West has 2.3 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, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,290 homes.

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No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency, so no switch-off payments show here in national data. Smaller wind farms on the local grid can still be paid to switch off — invisibly. The £ figure for this seat is a floor, not a zero.

how we worked this out

2.3 MW

of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning.

7 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out

£3.6m

is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 39,290 households in a year between them — £92 each, about 51 days of one home's electricity.

The £92 per household is a national figure — identical in every GB seat. Only the seat total varies, with the number of households · NESO · how we worked this out

The waiting list

6 of 7 waiting projects · years since approval

Morrisons, Thornton Road - Solar PV Panels 0.9 MW

4.4 YRS

University of Bradford, Richmond Road - Solar Panels 0.4 MW

3.8 YRS

Clayton Ce Primary School - Solar Panels 0.2 MW

2.6 YRS

St James Church Primary School, Chelwood Drive - Solar Photovoltaic Panels 0.1 MW

2.6 YRS

The University Of Bradford Stadium - Solar Panels 0.2 MW

2.5 YRS

Bradford Girls Grammar School, Squire Lane - Solar Panels 0.3 MW

2.3 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026

Site	Technology	Enough for	Capacity	Approved	Waiting
Morrisons, Thornton Road - Solar PV Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	300 homes	0.9 MW	2022-03	4.4 yrs
University of Bradford, Richmond Road - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.4 MW	2022-11	3.8 yrs
Bradford Girls Grammar School, Squire Lane - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.3 MW	2024-04	2.3 yrs
Clayton Ce Primary School - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.2 MW	2024-01	2.6 yrs
The University Of Bradford Stadium - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.2 MW	2024-02	2.5 yrs
Bradford Girls Grammar School, Squire Lane - Solar panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.2 MW	2024-07	2.1 yrs
St James Church Primary School, Chelwood Drive - Solar Photovoltaic Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.1 MW	2024-01	2.6 yrs

Batteries

projects of 10 MW and above · planning database, July 2026 · what batteries do →

Site	Size	Status	While discharging
Bradford West, Harrop Lane, Wilsden - Battery Storage	100 MW	approved, not built 2023	could supply ≈350,000 homes
Peat Dykes Farm, Harrop Lane - Battery Energy Storage System	100 MW	approved, not built 2026	could supply ≈350,000 homes
Old Allen Road, Wilsden - Battery Energy Storage System	100 MW	in planning	could supply ≈350,000 homes
Midland Road - Battery Energy Storage	80 MW	approved, not built 2024	could supply ≈280,000 homes
Bradford West Substation (Harrop Edge Farm)	50 MW	being built 2020	could supply ≈175,000 homes
Stor Generation Plant - Battery Storage	12 MW	approved, not built 2025	could supply ≈42,000 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 →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Naz Shah said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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