Didcot and Wantage
Didcot and Wantage has 103 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 37,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,055 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuneham Courtenay Solar Farm & Battery Storage Facility | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2022-01 | 4.6 yrs |
| Barnstaples Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | Solar Photovoltaics | 600 homes | 1.6 MW | 2021-07 | 5.1 yrs |
| Rebellion Film Studios, Milton Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.9 MW | 2023-01 | 3.6 yrs |
| Sainsburys Supermarkets, Central Drive - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Building B1, Culham Science Centre, Clifton Hampden - Solar Photovoltaic Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-08 | 4.0 yrs |
| Culham Science Centre, Building E4, E5 & E6, Clifton Hampden - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| Building M1, Culham Science Centre, Clifton Hampden - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-08 | 4.0 yrs |
Plus 7 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Culham Science Centre, Clifton Hampden - Battery Storage Facility | 500 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈1,752,000 homes |
| Appleford - Battery Energy Storage | 300 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈1,051,000 homes |
| Cowley Substation, Blackberry Lane - Battery Storage Energy System | 200 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈701,000 homes |
| Burcot Solar Farm | 50 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could 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 →
What has Olly Glover said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →