Rother Valley
Rother Valley has 49 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 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, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,332 homes. There is also 24 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common Farm - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.0 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| Pearsons Assessment And Testing, Hellaby Ind Estate - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-01 | 3.6 yrs |
Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moat Lane, Wickersley - Battery Storage Facility | 100 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| Moat Lane, Wickersley - Battery Storage Facility | 100 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| Green Lane, Thurcroft - Battery Energy Storage Facility | 85 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈298,000 homes |
| Thurcroft Interchange Energy Park - Battery Energy Storage System | 50 MW | in planning | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Nether Moor Field | 50 MW | 2017 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Common Farm - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | 49 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈172,000 homes |
| New South Farm, Piper Lane - Solar Farm | 12 MW | in planning | could supply ≈42,000 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 Jake Richards said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →