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Grantham and Bourne
Grantham and Bourne has 151 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 55,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,089 homes.
Ranks 32 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canners Lane Energy Park, High Dike - Battery EnergyNatPower UK | Battery | 1,000 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: North Kesteven Council |
| Heckington Fen Solar ParkEcotricity Limited | Solar | 182,000 homes 500 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2028, 3 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid |
| Little Hale Drove, Little Hale Fen - Battery StorageRoot-Power (South) Limited | Battery | 99 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 18 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 Grantham and Bourne 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.