CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard has 76 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 28,000 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,211 homes. A 350 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 1,226,000 homes.
Ranks 90 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury Farm, Dickens Lane - Battery Energy Storage SysRegener8 Power Limited | Battery | 350 MW |
Refused by Central Bedfordshire Council in 2025Who can move it: Central Bedfordshire Council |
| Chalgrave Manor, Luton Road - Solar FarmAton Energy | Solar | 15,000 homes 40 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Grounds Farm - Solar farmEncavis | Solar | 7,300 homes 20 MW |
Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 7 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 3 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.