No.103 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Matt Bishop (Labour) England

Forest of Dean

Forest of Dean has 64 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 23,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,094 homes.

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No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency, so no switch-off payments show here in national data. Smaller wind farms on the local grid can still be paid to switch off — invisibly. The £ figure for this seat is a floor, not a zero.

how we worked this out

64 MW

of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 23,000 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 0.7× the renewable capacity actually running here.

5 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out

£3.6m

is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 39,094 households in a year between them — £92 each, about 51 days of one home's electricity.

The £92 per household is a national figure — identical in every GB seat. Only the seat total varies, with the number of households · NESO · how we worked this out

The waiting list

5 of 5 waiting projects · years since approval

Over Farm 9.9 MW

10.2 YRS

Locquiers Farm, Plump Hill - Solar Farm 16 MW

4.6 YRS

Leeways Packaging Services, Laymore Road - Solar Panels 1 MW

3.7 YRS

Woodgate Sawmills, Buckstone Close - Solar Panels 0.3 MW

3.6 YRS

Maisemore - Solar Farm 37 MW

3.4 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026

Site	Technology	Enough for	Capacity	Approved	Waiting
Maisemore - Solar Farm	Solar Photovoltaics	13,000 homes	37.0 MW	2023-03	3.4 yrs
Locquiers Farm, Plump Hill - Solar Farm	Solar Photovoltaics	5,700 homes	15.7 MW	2021-12	4.6 yrs
Over Farm	Solar Photovoltaics	3,600 homes	9.9 MW	2016-06	10.2 yrs
Leeways Packaging Services, Laymore Road - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	400 homes	1.0 MW	2022-11	3.7 yrs
Woodgate Sawmills, Buckstone Close - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.3 MW	2022-12	3.6 yrs

Plus 5 more approved within the last two years.

Batteries

projects of 10 MW and above · planning database, July 2026 · what batteries do →

Site	Size	Status	While discharging
Linton Court Farm, Highnam - Battery storage	100 MW	approved, not built 2023	could supply ≈350,000 homes
Northington Lane - Battery Storage Facility	35 MW	approved, not built 2023	could supply ≈123,000 homes
Lassington Lane, Highnam - Battery Storage	10 MW	in planning	could supply ≈35,000 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 →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Matt Bishop said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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