Herne Bay and Sandwich
Herne Bay and Sandwich has 2.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,337 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hanet Earth, Barrow Man Road - Solar Panel Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.0 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Richborough Energy Park, Ramsgate Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.0 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| Watson Yard, Monkton - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-02 | 3.4 yrs |
| Richborough Solar Farm - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
Plus 8 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richborough Energy Park - Phase 3 (Sheaf) | 249 MW | being built 2022 | could supply ≈872,000 homes |
| Woodlands Farm, Calcott Hill - Battery Energy Storage | 228 MW | approved, not built 2026 | could supply ≈797,000 homes |
| Richborough Energy Park - Phase 2 | 50 MW | 2021 | could supply ≈176,000 homes |
| Owls Hatch Road, Thanet Way - Battery Energy Storage Facility | 50 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Richborough Energy Park | 50 MW | 2021 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Harrington Franklin, Richborough Energy Park - Battery Storage | 50 MW | being built 2022 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Ebbsfleet Lane - Battery Storage System | 50 MW | approved, not built 2026 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Wharf Road, Discovery Park - Battery Energy Storage | 10 MW | approved, not built 2024 | 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 →
What has Sir Roger Gale said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →