Doncaster North
Doncaster North has 3.8 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,400 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,487 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croft Farm, Askern Road - Solar Array & Hydrogen Plant | Solar Photovoltaics | 900 homes | 2.5 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| Doncaster Road, Doncaster Road - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.0 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| Red House Farm, High Melton -Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-09 | 3.9 yrs |
| Red House Farm, High Melton - Red House Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2021-09 | 4.9 yrs |
Plus 3 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thorpe Marsh Power Station - Battery Energy Storage | 1,450 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈5,081,000 homes |
| Thorpe Marsh Power Station, Marsh Lane - Battery Energy Storage | 1,400 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈4,906,000 homes |
| The Balk, Almholme - Energy Storage System | 1,025 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈3,592,000 homes |
| Fordtead Lane, Thorpe Marsh - Battery Energy Facility | 180 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈631,000 homes |
| Butt Lane, Hooton Pagnell Battery Energy Storage | 30 MW | in planning | could supply ≈105,000 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 Ed Miliband said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →