Broadland and Fakenham
Broadland and Fakenham has 46 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 17,000 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,805 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docking Farm Solar | Solar Photovoltaics | 10,000 homes | 28.0 MW | 2022-02 | 4.5 yrs |
| Burgate Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 5,400 homes | 15.0 MW | 2021-08 | 5.0 yrs |
| Helhoughton Road, Hempton - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.9 MW | 2023-08 | 3.0 yrs |
| Tc Fines, Norwich Road - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2023-08 | 3.0 yrs |
| D And F Mccarthy Limited, Memorial Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Wendover Road, Rackheath - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2021-12 | 4.6 yrs |
| The Pump House - Ground Mounted Solar Photovoltaic Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-08 | 3.0 yrs |
| Foxley Road, Themelthorpe - Solar Pv Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
| John Menzies Distribution, Memorial Way - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-01 | 3.5 yrs |
Plus 3 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shereford Road, West Raynham Estate - Battery Energy Storage System | 50 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Warren Wood Energy Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage | 10 MW | refused 2025 | 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 →
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