Swindon North
Swindon North has 58 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 21,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,276 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corner Copse Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2020-06 | 6.1 yrs |
| Amazon, Symmetry Park - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,200 homes | 3.3 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Orbital Shopping Park, North Swindon District Centre - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 700 homes | 2.0 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Keypoint, South Marston - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.1 MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
| Arkwright Road, Groundwell Industrial Estate - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.9 MW | 2022-09 | 3.8 yrs |
| Parsonage Road, Stratton St Margaret - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2022-07 | 4.1 yrs |
| Big Yellow Self Storage, Drakes Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| Alpha Building Europa Park, Stratton St Margaret - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2022-07 | 4.1 yrs |
| Newcome Drive - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2022-06 | 4.1 yrs |
| David Lloyd, Latham Road, Abbey Meads - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2023-07 | 3.1 yrs |
Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queenslaine Farm, Highworth Road - Battery Energy Storage System | 66 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈231,000 homes |
| Catsbrain Farm - Battery Storage | 30 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈105,000 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 Will Stone said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →