North Dorset
North Dorset has 97 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 35,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,125 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fernbrook - Solar farm & Battery storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2023-02 | 3.5 yrs |
| North Dairy Farm Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 11,000 homes | 30.0 MW | 2024-01 | 2.6 yrs |
| Blandford Hill - EV Charging Station & Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 5,400 homes | 15.0 MW | 2022-01 | 4.5 yrs |
| Brickfields Business Park, Unit 17 - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2023-07 | 3.0 yrs |
| Brickfields Business Park, Unit 35 - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| Riversmeet, Hardings Lane - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| Dextra Group, Brickfields Business Park - Solar PV Systems | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-04 | 2.3 yrs |
| Brickfields Business Park, Unit 16 - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| Brickfields Business Park, Unit 24 - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| St Giles House, Creech Hill - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
| Hospital Metalcraft, Blandford Heights Industrial Estate - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2023-01 | 3.5 yrs |
Plus 3 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaftesbury Energy Park - Battery Storage System | 100 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| Hawkers Hill Energy Park | 20 MW | 2017 | could supply ≈70,000 homes |
| South Farm Solar Park | 10 MW | 2020 | could supply ≈35,000 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 Simon Hoare said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →