Sittingbourne and Sheppey
Sittingbourne and Sheppey has 64 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 23,000 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,242 homes. There is also 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry - Solar PV | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2024-06 | 2.1 yrs |
| New Rides Farm - Photovoltaic Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 3,600 homes | 10.0 MW | 2021-09 | 4.8 yrs |
| Floplast, Castle Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 500 homes | 1.3 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Queenborough Business Park, Main Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.0 MW | 2023-12 | 2.6 yrs |
| Castle Road, Eurolink - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| Kemsley Fields Business Park, Ridham Dock Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2024-07 | 2.0 yrs |
| Brabazon Road, Eastchurch - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
| Thames Reinforcements Limited, New Road - Solar PV array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2022-06 | 4.1 yrs |
| The Promenade, Leysdown - Solar Panels | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Rides Farm, Leysdown Road - Battery Energy Storage System | 1,000 MW | in planning | could supply ≈3,504,000 homes |
| Ridham Avenue, Swale Way - Kemsley Battery Energy Storage | 249 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈872,000 homes |
| Kemsley Energy Park Battery Storage | 120 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈420,000 homes |
| Kemsley Substation | 50 MW | 2019 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Land off Queenborough Road | 40 MW | being built 2017 | could supply ≈140,000 homes |
| Plot 2B EurolinkV | 20 MW | being built 2019 | 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 →
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