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No.213 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Dawn Butler (Labour) England

Brent East

Brent East has 13 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 4,900 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.5m across the constituency's 49,311 homes.

Not visible
here
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
13 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 4,900 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning.
27 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£4.5m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 49,311 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 27 waiting projects · years since approval
Premier Park Road - Photovoltaic System 1.4 MW
4.2 YRS
Prop House, Abbey Road - Solar Panels 0.6 MW
3.6 YRS
Premier Park Road, Unit 3 - Solar Panels 0.6 MW
3.2 YRS
Premier Park Road, Unit B - Solar Panels 0.6 MW
3.2 YRS
Premier Park Road, Unit C - Solar Panels 0.5 MW
3.2 YRS
Premier Park Road, Unit E - Solar Panels 0.4 MW
3.2 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Premier Park Road - Photovoltaic SystemSolar Photovoltaics500 homes1.4 MW2022-054.2 yrs
Unit F, 6, Premier Park Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics500 homes1.3 MW2023-092.9 yrs
Unit 4, Origin Business Park, Rainsford Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics400 homes1.0 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Ikea Department Store, Drury Way - Solar Pv CanopiesSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.7 MW2023-102.8 yrs
Unit 1, Origin Business Park, Rainsford Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.7 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park Road, Unit 3 - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.6 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Prop House, Abbey Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.6 MW2023-013.6 yrs
Premier Park Road, Unit B - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.6 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Unit 5, Origin Business Park, Rainsford Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.6 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Unit 3, Origin Business Park, Rainsford Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park Road, Unit C - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park Road, Unit E - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.4 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park Road, Unit 7-8 - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.4 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park Road, Units 20-23 - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.4 MW2023-122.7 yrs
Rock Building, Waxlow Road - Solar panelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.4 MW2023-122.6 yrs
Premier Park Road, Units 5-6 - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.4 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park Road, Unit A - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.4 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Charlie Bighams, Mcnicol Drive - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2024-022.5 yrs
Nucleus, Central Way - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2023-082.9 yrs
Unit 2, Origin Business Park, Rainsford Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park Road, Units 10-11 - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park Road, Unit 9 - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Unit 6, Origin Business Park, Rainsford Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park Road, Unit 1 - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park Road, Unit 4 - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Premier Park, Park Royal - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2024-032.4 yrs
Nucleus, Central Way - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2023-102.8 yrs

Plus 3 more approved within the last two years.

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 Dawn Butler said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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