No.240 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Emily Darlington (Labour) England

Milton Keynes Central

Milton Keynes Central has 7.3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.5m across the constituency's 48,798 homes.

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No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency, so no switch-off payments show here in national data. Smaller wind farms on the local grid can still be paid to switch off — invisibly. The £ figure for this seat is a floor, not a zero.
7.3 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,600 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 2.4× the renewable capacity actually running here.
12 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£4.5m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 48,798 households in a year between them — £92 each, about 51 days of one home's electricity.
The £92 per household is a national figure — identical in every GB seat. Only the seat total varies, with the number of households · NESO · how we worked this out

The waiting list

6 of 12 waiting projects · years since approval
Winterhill House - Solar Panels 0.2 MW
4.7 YRS
Northfield Drive, Northfield - Solar Panles 0.8 MW
4.3 YRS
Fen Street- Solar Panels 0.2 MW
4.2 YRS
Bradwell Road, Loughton Lodge - Solar Panels 0.5 MW
4.1 YRS
Gosh Foods, Maidstone Road - Solar Panels 0.5 MW
3.5 YRS
Thornbury, West Ashland - Solar Photovoltaic System 0.9 MW
3.4 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Chippenham Drive, Kingston - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics600 homes1.8 MW2024-072.1 yrs
A G Barr Plc, Crossley Drive - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.9 MW2023-122.6 yrs
Thornbury, West Ashland - Solar Photovoltaic SystemSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.9 MW2023-033.4 yrs
Northfield Drive, Northfield - Solar PanlesSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.8 MW2022-034.3 yrs
David Lloyd, Livingstone Drive - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.6 MW2023-112.7 yrs
Midway Centre, Harding Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2023-073.0 yrs
Bradwell Road, Loughton Lodge - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2022-064.1 yrs
Gosh Foods, Maidstone Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2023-023.5 yrs
Northfield Drive, Northfield Drive - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2024-032.4 yrs
Deltic Avenue, Rooksley - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2024-052.2 yrs
Fen Street- Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2022-054.2 yrs
Winterhill House - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2021-114.7 yrs

Plus 3 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 →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Emily Darlington said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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