No.226 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat) England

North Shropshire

North Shropshire has 11 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,469 homes.

Not visible
here
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.
11 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,800 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 0.1× the renewable capacity actually running here.
13 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£4.0m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 43,469 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 13 waiting projects · years since approval
Wykey Farm, Ruyton Xi Towns - Solar Array 1 MW
4.2 YRS
Sansaw Business Park, Hadnall - Solar Panels 1 MW
4.2 YRS
Cefn-Y-Maes Farm, Rhydycroesau - Solar Park 1.2 MW
3.8 YRS
Kenwick Lodge, Cockshutt - Solar Array 0.3 MW
3.8 YRS
Highbury Poultry Farm Produce, Manor House Lane - Solar Panels 0.3 MW
3.7 YRS
Highbury Poultry Produce, Manor House Lane - Solar Array 0.6 MW
3.6 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Belton Farm, Belton - Solar Pv SystemSolar Photovoltaics800 homes2.2 MW2024-042.3 yrs
Manor Farm, Crickheath - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics700 homes1.8 MW2023-102.8 yrs
Cefn-Y-Maes Farm, Rhydycroesau - Solar ParkSolar Photovoltaics400 homes1.2 MW2022-103.8 yrs
Winston Farm, Ellesmere Road - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics400 homes1.1 MW2023-083.0 yrs
Sansaw Business Park, Hadnall - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics400 homes1.0 MW2022-054.2 yrs
Wykey Farm, Ruyton Xi Towns - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics400 homes1.0 MW2022-054.2 yrs
Cold Move, Maes-Y-ClawddSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.8 MW2023-043.3 yrs
Highbury Poultry Produce, Manor House Lane - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.6 MW2023-013.6 yrs
Kenwick Lodge, Cockshutt - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2022-103.8 yrs
Highbury Poultry Farm Produce, Manor House Lane - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2022-113.7 yrs
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2024-062.2 yrs
Plas Yolyn - Solar ParkSolar Photovoltaics— MW2024-052.2 yrs
Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics— MW2024-042.3 yrs

Plus 8 more approved within the last two years.

Batteries

projects of 10 MW and above · planning database, July 2026 · what batteries do →
SiteSizeStatusWhile discharging
Rednal Airfield, West Felton - Battery Energy Storage300 MWapproved, not built 2026could supply ≈1,051,000 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 →

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