Chippenham
Chippenham has 103 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 38,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,998 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wick Farm Melksham Substation | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2021-12 | 4.6 yrs |
| Forest Gate - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Parsonage Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 600 homes | 1.6 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Edinburgh Way - Solar Photovolatic Panel | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.7 MW | 2022-09 | 3.9 yrs |
| Wiltshire College, Lackham - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-04 | 3.3 yrs |
| Morrisons, West Cepen Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Moonraker Farm, Gastard - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| St Marys School, Curzon Street - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-07 | 2.0 yrs |
| Springfield Community Campus, Beechfield Road - Solar Photovoltaic Arrays | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-04 | 2.3 yrs |
Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brockleaze, Neston Park Estate - Battery Energy Storage | 450 MW | in planning | could supply ≈1,577,000 homes |
| Forest Gate - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | 40 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈140,000 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 →
What has Sarah Gibson said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →