Earley and Woodley
Earley and Woodley has 3.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,300 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, £3.6m across the constituency's 38,905 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suttons Park Avenue, Suttons Business Park - Solar PV | Solar Photovoltaics | 500 homes | 1.3 MW | 2023-08 | 3.0 yrs |
| Relief Road - Solar Photovoltaic Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2022-02 | 4.5 yrs |
| Starline Holdings Technology, Island Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Voco Reading Hotel, Shooters Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Arena Business Park, Acre Road- Photovoltaics Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-04 | 3.3 yrs |
| Reading International Business Park - Roof Mounted Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2021-12 | 4.6 yrs |
| Reading International Business Park, Relief Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| Thames Valley Park Drive, Earley - Photovoltaic Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
| Woodley Library Solar Planels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2021-06 | 5.1 yrs |
| David Lloyd Leisure, Thames Valley Park Drive - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| Reading International Business Park - Car Port & Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-01 | 2.6 yrs |
Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.
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 →
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