Hinckley and Bosworth
Hinckley and Bosworth has 80 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 30,000 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,853 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stoneshollow Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2022-08 | 4.0 yrs |
| Kirkby Road | Solar Photovoltaics | 8,500 homes | 23.5 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Barns Heath Farm - Wind Turbines | Wind Onshore | 1,700 homes | 2.0 MW | 2023-02 | 3.4 yrs |
| Triumph Motorcycles, Normandy Way - Solar PV Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 500 homes | 1.3 MW | 2023-11 | 2.8 yrs |
| Mercia Park, Burton Road - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.0 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Dpd International Gateway, Logix Road Phase 1 - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.8 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| DPD International Gateway, Logix Road - Phase 2, Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2024-04 | 2.3 yrs |
| Morrison Supermarkets, Cloverfield - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.4 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Burbage House - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-07 | 3.1 yrs |
| E M E B Sports & Social Club, Nutts Lane - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-11 | 2.7 yrs |
| Manor Park, Twycross - Solar Photovoltaic Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-09 | 4.9 yrs |
Plus 6 more approved within the last two years.
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 Dr Luke Evans said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →