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No.24 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Patrick Spencer (Conservative) England

Central Suffolk and North Ipswich

Central Suffolk and North Ipswich has 177 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 64,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,508 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
177 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 64,000 homes — about as many homes as this constituency has. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 7.6× the renewable capacity actually running here.
6 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£3.6m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 39,508 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

4 of 6 waiting projects · years since approval
New Road Solar Farm 50 MW
4.8 YRS
Church Farm, The Channel - Bramford Solar Farm and Battery Storage 50 MW
2.9 YRS
Tye Lane - Solar Farm 50 MW
2.6 YRS
Park Farm - Solar Panels 21 MW
2.1 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Tye Lane - Solar FarmSolar Photovoltaics18,000 homes49.9 MW2023-122.6 yrs
New Road Solar FarmSolar Photovoltaics18,000 homes49.9 MW2021-104.8 yrs
Church Farm, The Channel - Bramford Solar Farm and Battery StorageSolar Photovoltaics18,000 homes49.9 MW2023-092.9 yrs
Park Farm - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics7,600 homes21.0 MW2024-062.1 yrs
Masons Landfill, Bramford Road, Great Blakenham - Solar FarmSolar Photovoltaics2,200 homes6.1 MW2024-032.4 yrs
White House Road - Solar PV SystemSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2023-092.9 yrs

Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.

Batteries

projects of 10 MW and above · planning database, July 2026 · what batteries do →
SiteSizeStatusWhile discharging
Bullen Lane, Bramford - Battery Energy Storage400 MWapproved, not built 2025could supply ≈1,402,000 homes
Bullen Lane - Battery Storage100 MWbeing built 2022could supply ≈350,000 homes
Bramford Substation57 MWoperating 2021could supply ≈200,000 homes
Greybarn Solar Energy Farm55 MWin planningcould supply ≈193,000 homes
Kettleburgh Road Easton - Solar Panels & Battery Storage50 MWin planningcould supply ≈175,000 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 Patrick Spencer said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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