No.54 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Sarah Edwards (Labour) England

Tamworth

Tamworth has 113 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 41,000 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,571 homes.

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No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency, so no switch-off payments show here in national data. Smaller wind farms on the local grid can still be paid to switch off — invisibly. The £ figure for this seat is a floor, not a zero.

how we worked this out

113 MW

of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 41,000 homes — about as many homes as this constituency has. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 56.6× the renewable capacity actually running here.

6 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out

£3.8m

is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 41,571 households in a year between them — £92 each, about 51 days of one home's electricity.

The £92 per household is a national figure — identical in every GB seat. Only the seat total varies, with the number of households · NESO · how we worked this out

The waiting list

6 of 6 waiting projects · years since approval

Haunton Solar Farm 50 MW

4.3 YRS

Marlborough Way, Belgrave - Solar Photovolta 0 MW

4.2 YRS

Highfields Farm, Clifton Lane - Solar Panels 62 MW

3.1 YRS

J Sainsbury, Elmhurst Drive - Solar Panels 0 MW

2.7 YRS

Little Aston Hospital, Little Aston Hall Dri 0 MW

2.2 YRS

Landau Forte Academy Qems - Solar Panels 0 MW

2.1 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026

Site	Technology	Enough for	Capacity	Approved	Waiting
Highfields Farm, Clifton Lane - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	22,000 homes	61.9 MW	2023-07	3.1 yrs
Haunton Solar Farm	Solar Photovoltaics	18,000 homes	49.9 MW	2022-04	4.3 yrs
J Sainsbury, Elmhurst Drive - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	200 homes	0.5 MW	2023-11	2.7 yrs
Landau Forte Academy Qems - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	200 homes	0.4 MW	2024-06	2.1 yrs
Marlborough Way, Belgrave - Solar Photovoltaic System	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.3 MW	2022-05	4.2 yrs
Little Aston Hospital, Little Aston Hall Drive - Solar panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.2 MW	2024-05	2.2 yrs

Plus 1 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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