Sleaford and North Hykeham
Sleaford and North Hykeham has 43 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 16,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,558 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branston Solar Park (extension) | Solar Photovoltaics | 15,000 homes | 40.0 MW | 2017-12 | 8.6 yrs |
| Swinderby Quarry - Solar PV Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.2 MW | 2023-11 | 2.7 yrs |
| Beeswax Dyson Farming, Cyclone Way - Solar Arrays | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
| Noble Foods, Hives Lane - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2023-07 | 3.1 yrs |
| Cargill & Frontier Agriculture, Camp Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Barn Farm, Navenby - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
| Boothby Graffoe - Solar photovoltaics panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
| North Kesteven Sports Centre, Moor Lane - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
| Skinnand Manor Farm, Navenby - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
| The Feed Mill, Lowfields - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hill Rise, Coleby - Battery Energy Storage | 1,000 MW | in planning | could supply ≈3,504,000 homes |
| Beacon Fen Energy Park | 600 MW | in planning | could supply ≈2,102,000 homes |
| Green Man Road, Navenby - Battery Storage | 400 MW | in planning | could supply ≈1,402,000 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 Dr Caroline Johnson said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →