South East Cornwall
South East Cornwall has 1.9 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,947 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connon Bridge - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.9 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
| Morrisons Superstore, Plymouth Road - Solar Photovoltaic System | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Trenake Farm, Pelynt - Solar PV Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-12 | 3.6 yrs |
| Station Road, Kelly Bray - Solar Panel | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-08 | 4.0 yrs |
| Spinnaker International Spinnaker House, Long Acre - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-12 | 2.7 yrs |
| Collon Barton, St Veep - Solar Arrays | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Kingsmill, Landulph - Battery Storage | 80 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈280,000 homes |
| Landulph, Ellbridge Lane - Battery Storage Facility | 50 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Landulph Substation, Ellbridge Lane - Battery Energy Storage | 50 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Trevol Business Park | 10 MW | approved, not built 2019 | could supply ≈35,000 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 Anna Gelderd said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →