Ely and East Cambridgeshire
Ely and East Cambridgeshire has 145 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 53,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,828 homes. A 90 MW battery was refused planning here in 2026; while discharging it could have supplied about 315,000 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burwell Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2020-11 | 5.7 yrs |
| Newmarket Road, Bottisham - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2023-12 | 2.6 yrs |
| North Angle Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 11,000 homes | 29.4 MW | 2020-11 | 5.7 yrs |
| Chittering Solar Farm - extension 2 | Solar Photovoltaics | 3,500 homes | 9.6 MW | 2015-06 | 11.1 yrs |
| Goose Hall Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,800 homes | 5.0 MW | 2021-03 | 5.4 yrs |
| The Harbour School, Station Road - Solar Panels & ASHP | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.9 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Lees Packhouse, The Gault - Solar PV System | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-06 | 3.2 yrs |
| Cambridge Commodities, Lancaster Way Business Park - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-01 | 2.6 yrs |
| Mettleham Farm Centre, Hasse Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| The Cloisters - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wicken Bridleway, Church Road - Battery Energy Storage | 400 MW | approved, not built 2026 | could supply ≈1,402,000 homes |
| Land Southwest of Hightown Drove, Burwell - Battery Energy Storage System | 90 MW | refused 2026 | could supply ≈315,000 homes |
| Newmarket Road, Bottisham - Battery Energy Storage | 50 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Burwell - Battery Storage | 50 MW | 2018 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Anchor Lane, Burwell - Battery Energy Storage | 50 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Reach Road | 50 MW | approved, not built 2020 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Weirs Drove, Burwell - Battery Storage Facility | 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 Charlotte Cane said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →