Rushcliffe
Rushcliffe has 163 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 59,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,128 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church Farm, Kingston On Soar - Solar Photovoltaic Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2022-12 | 3.6 yrs |
| Fair Oaks Renewable Energy Park - Solar farm & Battery energy storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| Highfields Farm - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 16,000 homes | 42.9 MW | 2023-02 | 3.5 yrs |
| Ratcliffe On Soar Power Station - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 3,300 homes | 9.0 MW | 2023-07 | 3.0 yrs |
| Sharpley Hill Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,500 homes | 4.2 MW | 2021-12 | 4.7 yrs |
| Radcliffe Road, Holme Pierrepont - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,500 homes | 4.2 MW | 2022-12 | 3.6 yrs |
| Monarch Education Furniture - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.9 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| British Geological, Keywork Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2021-01 | 5.5 yrs |
| Frontier Agriculture, Ruddington - Solar PV | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Wells Agriculture Barn Farm, Flawforth Lane - Solar PV System | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| David Lloyd Leisure Health and Fitness Club, Rugby Road - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Ideagen, Mere Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
Plus 7 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Leake Lane, Ratcliffe - Battery Storage | 1,200 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈4,205,000 homes |
| Gotham - Battery Energy storage | 100 MW | in planning | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| West Leake Lane, Ratcliffe - Battery Storage | 100 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| Old Wood Energy Park - Battery Energy Storage | 85 MW | approved, not built 2026 | could supply ≈298,000 homes |
| Fair Oaks Renewable Energy Park - Solar farm & Battery energy storage | 50 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| West Thorpe Church Farm, Willoughby On The Wolds - Battery Energy Storage | 25 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈88,000 homes |
| Heron Solar Farm & Battery Storage | 20 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈70,000 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 James Naish said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →