CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP

Daventry

MP: Stuart Andrew (Conservative) England Data to July 2026

Daventry has 130 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 47,000 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,684 homes. There is also 69 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.

Ranks 41 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Green Hill Solar Farm & Battery StorageIsland Green Power Solar 218,000 homes
600 MW
Waiting 1.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects)
Green Hill Solar Farm & Battery StorageIsland Green Power Battery
600 MW
Waiting 1.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects)
Grendon Road, Earls Barton - Battery Energy StorageGreenfield Energy Developments Limited Battery
100 MW
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company

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