Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket has 52 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 19,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,175 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firsfield Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 17,000 homes | 46.9 MW | 2024-04 | 2.3 yrs |
| Climax Molybdenum UK Limited, Needham Road - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.2 MW | 2024-05 | 2.3 yrs |
| Skyliner Way - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.0 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| West Suffolk College, Out Risbygate Street - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2022-12 | 3.7 yrs |
| E D F Energy, Barton Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2023-01 | 3.5 yrs |
| West Suffolk College, Western Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2022-12 | 3.7 yrs |
| PPG, Letter Site - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.4 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Thetford International, Bury Road, - Solar PV Systems | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| Gainsborough Road Car Park - Solar PV arrays | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-09 | 4.9 yrs |
| All Saints Hotel, The Street - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| Raf Honington Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2021-12 | 4.6 yrs |
Plus 1 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 →
What has Dr Peter Prinsley said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →