Richmond and Northallerton
Richmond and Northallerton has 111 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 40,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,947 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Lowfields Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2019-12 | 6.6 yrs |
| Os Field 6800 Fence Dike Lane - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| Broken Scar Water Treatment Works Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 3,300 homes | 9.0 MW | 2022-06 | 4.1 yrs |
| AD Calvert Architectural, Stone Yard - Redevelopment Master Plan | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2024-02 | 2.5 yrs |
| Middleton Lodge, Kneeton Lane - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.4 MW | 2023-02 | 3.4 yrs |
| Lark Hall Farm, Romanby - Ground Mounted Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Foss Way, Walkerville Industrial Estate - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-01 | 3.5 yrs |
| Poultry Unit, Park View Farm - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-11 | 3.8 yrs |
| Brompton Lakes, Easby - Solar PV System | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-01 | 3.6 yrs |
Plus 5 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mowbray Battery Energy Storage Station | 1,000 MW | in planning | could supply ≈3,504,000 homes |
| Darlington Road, Skeeby - Battery Energy Storage | 35 MW | being built 2023 | could supply ≈123,000 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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