No.71 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Martin Vickers (Conservative) England

Brigg and Immingham

Brigg and Immingham has 96 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 35,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,883 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

96 MW

of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 35,000 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 2.0× the renewable capacity actually running here.

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

£3.7m

is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 39,883 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 14 waiting projects · years since approval

Hilmore Road, Laceby - Photovoltaic Solar System 0.5 MW

4.2 YRS

Elsham Wold Industrial Estate, Pegasus Road - Solar Panels 0.3 MW

4.1 YRS

Elsham Wold Industrial Estate - Solar Panels 0.3 MW

4.1 YRS

Grimsby Solar Farm 50 MW

3.7 YRS

Quinton And Kaines, Enterprise Court - Solar Panels 0.5 MW

3.4 YRS

Gleadell Bulk Terminal, Alexandra Road South - Solar Panels 0.8 MW

3.3 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

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

Site	Technology	Enough for	Capacity	Approved	Waiting
Grimsby Solar Farm	Solar Photovoltaics	18,000 homes	49.9 MW	2022-11	3.7 yrs
Sweet Briar Farm - Solar Farm	Solar Photovoltaics	14,000 homes	39.0 MW	2024-02	2.5 yrs
Shed 10, Alexandra Road South, Immingham Docks - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	500 homes	1.4 MW	2023-09	2.9 yrs
Shed 27, Alexandra Road, South Immingham - Solar Photovoltaic Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	400 homes	1.1 MW	2023-09	2.9 yrs
Gleadell Bulk Terminal, Alexandra Road South - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	300 homes	0.8 MW	2023-04	3.3 yrs
Thorpe Park Holiday Camp, Anthonys Bank Road - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	200 homes	0.6 MW	2023-04	3.3 yrs
ABP Immingham, Shed 35 Immingham Dock - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	200 homes	0.5 MW	2023-04	3.3 yrs
Quinton And Kaines, Enterprise Court - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	200 homes	0.5 MW	2023-03	3.4 yrs
Hilmore Road, Laceby - Photovoltaic Solar System	Solar Photovoltaics	200 homes	0.5 MW	2022-05	4.2 yrs
Abp Border Control Post Building, Queens Road - Solar Photovoltaic Panel	Solar Photovoltaics	200 homes	0.4 MW	2023-10	2.8 yrs
Weelsby Pumping Station, Hewitts Avenue - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.4 MW	2023-04	3.3 yrs
Elsham Wold Industrial Estate, Pegasus Road - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.3 MW	2022-06	4.1 yrs
Elsham Wold Industrial Estate - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.3 MW	2022-06	4.1 yrs
Agrimin Limited, Schiphol Way - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.2 MW	2023-05	3.2 yrs

Plus 9 more approved within the last two years.

Batteries

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

Site	Size	Status	While discharging
Sweetbriar Farm - Battery Energy Storage System	800 MW	in planning	could supply ≈2,803,000 homes
Stallingboroughe, Stallingborough Road - BESS	375 MW	approved, not built 2026	could supply ≈1,314,000 homes
Stallingborough Road - Battery Storage	125 MW	in planning	could supply ≈438,000 homes
Trondheim Way Battery energy storage	80 MW	being built 2023	could supply ≈280,000 homes
Netherlands Way - Battery Energy Facility	80 MW	approved, not built 2022	could supply ≈280,000 homes
Europa Way - Battery Storage Facility	80 MW	approved, not built 2025	could supply ≈280,000 homes
Hewitts Avenue, New Waltham - Battery Storage	50 MW	approved, not built 2025	could supply ≈175,000 homes
Scawby Road - Solar Array	30 MW	in planning	could supply ≈105,000 homes
Immingham Solar Farm - Battery Storage Facility	30 MW	approved, not built 2025	could supply ≈105,000 homes
Gunnerby Road - 30MW Battery Energy Storage	30 MW	in planning	could supply ≈105,000 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 →

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What has Martin Vickers said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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