Gloucester
Gloucester has 7.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.5m across the constituency's 48,790 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unilever UK, Corinium Avenue - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,300 homes | 3.5 MW | 2024-05 | 2.2 yrs |
| Hempsted Lane - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 700 homes | 2.0 MW | 2023-08 | 3.0 yrs |
| Gloucestershire College - Photovoltaic Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
| Arlingham House, Quedgeley - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2021-11 | 4.8 yrs |
| Tenpin Centre, Severn Barnwood Link Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| Gloucester Academy | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-05 | 5.2 yrs |
| Francis And Lewis International, Waterwells Drive - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Gloucester Royal Hospital - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-07 | 5.1 yrs |
| Quayside House - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2021-05 | 5.2 yrs |
| Morrisons Supermarket, Glevum Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
Plus 5 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sudmeadow Road, Hempsted - Battery Energy Storage System | 50 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈175,000 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 Alex McIntyre said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →