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No.203 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (Liberal Democrat) England

Chichester

Chichester has 19 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 6,800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,526 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
19 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 6,800 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 0.3× the renewable capacity actually running here.
10 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£4.2m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 45,526 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 10 waiting projects · years since approval
Baker Barracks Solar Development 1.5 MW
5.4 YRS
Ferry Farm - Solar array 11 MW
4.7 YRS
Via Ravenna - Solar Panel 0.2 MW
4.3 YRS
Bartholomews, Merston Oving - Solar Array 0.3 MW
4.1 YRS
Teknoflex, Quarry Lane - Solar Panels 0.2 MW
3.8 YRS
Sefter Farm, Pagham Road - Solar Panels 2 MW
2.9 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Ferry Farm - Solar arraySolar Photovoltaics4,000 homes11.0 MW2021-114.7 yrs
Sefter Farm, Pagham Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics700 homes2.0 MW2023-092.9 yrs
Natures Way Food, Chichester Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics700 homes1.8 MW2024-072.1 yrs
Baker Barracks Solar DevelopmentSolar Photovoltaics500 homes1.5 MW2021-025.4 yrs
Chichester Food Park, Runcton Unit - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics500 homes1.3 MW2024-072.1 yrs
Ham Farm, Bosham - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.4 MW2024-042.3 yrs
Bartholomews, Merston Oving - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2022-064.1 yrs
Teknoflex, Quarry Lane - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2022-103.8 yrs
Walton Barn - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2024-042.3 yrs
Via Ravenna - Solar PanelSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2022-044.3 yrs

Plus 3 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 →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Jess Brown-Fuller said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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