Hyndburn
Hyndburn has 12 MW of clean power (mostly onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 8,600 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,738 homes. There is also 24 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyndburn Wind Farm Extension | Wind Onshore | 7,200 homes | 8.2 MW | 2015-06 | 11.1 yrs |
| Coach Road Meadow - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 700 homes | 2.0 MW | 2024-06 | 2.1 yrs |
| Accrington and Rossendale College, Sandy Lane - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.4 MW | 2024-02 | 2.5 yrs |
| St Christophers School, Queens Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| The Hollins, Hollins Lane - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-04 | 2.3 yrs |
| Senator International, Newhouse Road - Solar Photovoltaics Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
| Whinney Hill Road - Solar Photovoltaic Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-12 | 4.7 yrs |
| Altham - Solar PV | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2022-01 | 4.5 yrs |
| Whitebirk Depot Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2021-01 | 5.5 yrs |
Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knuzden Moss Farm, Oswaldtwistle - Battery Energy Storage System | 60 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈210,000 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 Sarah Smith said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →