Rutland and Stamford
Rutland and Stamford has 379 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 138,000 homes. No wind farm here is paid to switch off. Almost every pound of that money goes to wind farms in Scotland, held back by the crowded wires at the border. The cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay too: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,908 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mallard Pass Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 127,000 homes | 350.0 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
| Ranksborough Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 10,000 homes | 28.0 MW | 2022-01 | 4.5 yrs |
| Morrison - Roof mounted solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.7 MW | 2022-06 | 4.2 yrs |
| Openfield, Colsterworth - Solar PV System | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2022-08 | 4.0 yrs |
| Cherryholt Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-08 | 3.9 yrs |
| Rutland Garden Centre, Ashwell Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-04 | 3.3 yrs |
Plus 5 more approved within the last two years.
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.
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