North West Leicestershire
North West Leicestershire has 7.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,700 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,775 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 3, Wilders Way - Solar Photovoltaic Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,500 homes | 4.2 MW | 2022-09 | 3.9 yrs |
| Morrisons, Whitwick Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.8 MW | 2022-04 | 4.3 yrs |
| West Lane, Bardon Hill - Solar PV System | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2021-08 | 5.0 yrs |
| Mushroom Farm, Lower Fields - Agricultural Building & Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
| Gateway House, Interlink Way West - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| East Midlands Distribution Centre, Arundel Avenue - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-05 | 2.2 yrs |
| Motability Operations Limited, Stephenson Court - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-04 | 2.3 yrs |
| Plot 3a, Emdc Arundel Avenue - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2015-12 | 10.6 yrs |
| Park Farmhouse Hotel, Castle Donington - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2023-08 | 2.9 yrs |
Plus 6 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remembrance Way - Battery Energy Storage System | 99 MW | approved, not built 2026 | could supply ≈347,000 homes |
| Hill Farm - Energy Barn | 10 MW | 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 →
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