Doncaster Central
Doncaster Central has 62 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 23,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.5m across the constituency's 49,026 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mere Flats Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 20,000 homes | 56.0 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| Toronto Way, New Rossington Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 800 homes | 2.3 MW | 2021-04 | 5.3 yrs |
| Iport Avenue, New Rossington Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 700 homes | 1.9 MW | 2021-03 | 5.4 yrs |
| Yorkshire Way, Armthorpe - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.0 MW | 2023-11 | 2.7 yrs |
| Morris & Co Handlers, Balby Carr Bank - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2023-04 | 3.3 yrs |
| Morris And Co Handlers, Balby Carr Bank - Solar Pv Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-01 | 2.6 yrs |
| Haith Group Limited, Cow House Lane - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Jj Foodservice Limited, Derbyshire Court - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-08 | 2.9 yrs |
Plus 3 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cutts Bros, Wharf Road - Battery Storage Facility | 50 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Mere Flats Solar Farm | 16 MW | in planning | could supply ≈56,000 homes |
| J3 Business Park - Battery Storage Facility | 16 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈56,000 homes |
| J3 Business Park - Battery Energy Storage Facility | 10 MW | being built 2023 | could supply ≈35,000 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 Sally Jameson said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →