No.43 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Callum Anderson (Labour) England

Buckingham and Bletchley

Buckingham and Bletchley has 130 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 47,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,543 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.
130 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 47,000 homes — about as many homes as this constituency has. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 2.2× the renewable capacity actually running here.
16 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£3.8m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 41,543 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

5 of 16 waiting projects · years since approval
Tuckey Farm 25 MW
5.3 YRS
Manor Farm 12 MW
4.2 YRS
Wood End, Mursley Road 36 MW
3.7 YRS
Wicken Farm, Leckhampstead - Solar Farm 21 MW
2.6 YRS
Manor Farm, Beachampton - Solar Farm 25 MW
2.6 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Wood End, Mursley RoadSolar Photovoltaics13,000 homes36.0 MW2022-123.7 yrs
Tuckey FarmSolar Photovoltaics9,100 homes25.0 MW2021-045.3 yrs
Manor Farm, Beachampton - Solar FarmSolar Photovoltaics9,100 homes25.0 MW2024-012.6 yrs
Wicken Farm, Leckhampstead - Solar FarmSolar Photovoltaics7,600 homes21.0 MW2023-122.6 yrs
Manor FarmSolar Photovoltaics4,400 homes12.0 MW2022-064.2 yrs
Stratford Road Solar FarmSolar Photovoltaics1,800 homes5.0 MW2022-014.5 yrs
Delico, Steinbeck Crescent - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics600 homes1.6 MW2023-043.3 yrs
DHL Supply Chain, Pendeen Crescent -Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics400 homes1.2 MW2024-072.0 yrs
Silverstone Road, Biddlesden - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.9 MW2022-044.3 yrs
Sensient Flavours, Bilton Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Dawson Road, Bletchley - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2022-084.0 yrs
Liscombe Business Park - Ground Mounted Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2024-022.5 yrs
Dawson Rentals Vans, Dawson Road - Solar Carport Canopy & BESSSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2024-052.2 yrs
Brackley Sewage Treatment Works, Brackley Road - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2022-113.7 yrs
Unit 2, Watling Street - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2024-072.1 yrs
Sir Herbert Leon Academy - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2021-045.3 yrs

Plus 6 more approved within the last two years.

Batteries

projects of 10 MW and above · planning database, July 2026 · what batteries do →
SiteSizeStatusWhile discharging
East Claydon Battery Energy Storage500 MWapproved, not built 2025could supply ≈1,752,000 homes
Stony Energy Storage Facility80 MWoperating 2021could supply ≈280,000 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 Callum Anderson said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

See the full league table Data (JSON)