Kenilworth and Southam
Kenilworth and Southam has 229 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 83,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,381 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2022; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashorne Hill - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 50.0 MW | 2022-08 | 4.0 yrs |
| Middle Road Farm - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 50.0 MW | 2023-08 | 3.0 yrs |
| Feldon Vale Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2022-12 | 3.7 yrs |
| Eastfields Farm, Deppers Bridge - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 13,000 homes | 34.8 MW | 2021-08 | 4.9 yrs |
| Honiley Road - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 8,400 homes | 23.1 MW | 2024-07 | 2.0 yrs |
| Sherbourne Warwick Solar (Hampton Lodge) | Solar Photovoltaics | 7,300 homes | 20.0 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| Lower Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2020-10 | 5.8 yrs |
| Priors Marston Road, Hellidon - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| Siskin Parkway East, Middlemarch Business Park - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-02 | 3.5 yrs |
| Gaydon Road, Bishops Itchington - Solar Photovoltaic Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-04 | 4.3 yrs |
| Canute Haulage Group, Siskin Parkway East - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-06 | 2.1 yrs |
| British Film Institute - Solar Arrays | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-12 | 4.6 yrs |
Plus 5 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burton Green Farm - Battery Energy Storage | 100 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| Holly Lane Energy Park - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | 75 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈263,000 homes |
| Honiley Road - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | 57 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈200,000 homes |
| Banner Hill Farm, Banner Hill & Rouncil Lane - Battery Storage | 50 MW | refused 2022 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Dadglow Farm, Bishops Itchington - Battery Energy Storage System | 20 MW | refused 2025 | could supply ≈70,000 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 Jeremy Wright said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →