Kingston upon Hull East
Kingston upon Hull East has 5.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,000 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 44,034 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bericap, Oslo Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 500 homes | 1.3 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Cranswick Convenience Foods, Helsinki Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.9 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Cranswick Foods, Helsinki Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.7 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Caradon Ideal, National Avenue - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| Cranswick Foods, Helsinki Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Cranswick Foods, Helsinki Road - Solar Photovoltaics | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Morrisons Supermarket - PV Solar System | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2022-04 | 4.3 yrs |
| Kingspan Access Floors,Burma Drive - Solar PV System | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-03 | 3.3 yrs |
| Geneva Way Business Park - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2022-09 | 3.9 yrs |
| WJ Components Limited, Burma Drive - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hull East Stor Generation Compound - Battery energy storage | 20 MW | approved, not built 2021 | could supply ≈70,000 homes |
| Green Frog Power, Great Field Lane - Battery Energy Storage System | 20 MW | approved, not built 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 Karl Turner said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →