CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Mid Derbyshire
Mid Derbyshire has 1.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 400 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, £3.5m across the constituency's 38,559 homes.
Ranks 394 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boyah Grange Solar Farm, Potato Pit Lane - Solar FarABEI Energy Group | Solar | 13,000 homes 35 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Erewash Council |
| Pinnacle Storage Park, Dale Abbey - Solar PV PanelsHansteen Property Investments | Solar | 400 homes 1 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
What else is in the briefing
- All 2 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How Mid Derbyshire compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 2 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.