Portsmouth North
Portsmouth North has 12 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 4,200 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,736 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeside Business Park | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,600 homes | 4.5 MW | 2022-11 | 3.8 yrs |
| Farlington Water Treatment Works, Gillman Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,300 homes | 3.7 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Portsmouth International Port - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.2 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| Trafalgar Wharf Hamilton Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.7 MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
| Broad Oak Works, Airport Service Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2023-01 | 3.5 yrs |
| SGN, Walton Park - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-02 | 3.5 yrs |
| Mountbatten Centre, Twyford Avenue - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| David Lloyd Club, The Boardwalk - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| Warehouse, Gunstore Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-01 | 3.6 yrs |
Plus 6 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Widley, Portsdown Hill Road - Battery Energy Storage System | 120 MW | in planning | could supply ≈420,000 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 Amanda Martin said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →