Droitwich and Evesham
Droitwich and Evesham has 67 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 24,000 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 43,897 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Farm, Mount Pleasant - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 13,000 homes | 35.0 MW | 2024-06 | 2.2 yrs |
| Bishampton Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 11,000 homes | 30.0 MW | 2021-11 | 4.7 yrs |
| David Lloyd Leisure, Warriors Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.4 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| Clayfield Road, Worcester Six Business Park - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.4 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
| J And J Bannister Evesham, Newtown - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-07 | 3.0 yrs |
| Harvey & Brockless Limited, Millennium Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-05 | 2.2 yrs |
| Bramley Drive - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-06 | 4.1 yrs |
| Woodbury Lane, Norton - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-04 | 2.3 yrs |
| Hyde Farm, Worcester Road - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2023-04 | 3.3 yrs |
| Primafruit Limited - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2021-10 | 4.8 yrs |
Plus 5 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doverdale - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | 50 MW | 2022 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Pershore Lane, Tibberton - Battery Energy Storage System | 14 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈49,000 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 Nigel Huddleston said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →