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No.16 OF 650 · APPROVED, NOT BUILT MP: Mark Pritchard (Conservative) England

The Wrekin

The Wrekin has 221 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 80,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,662 homes.

Not visible
here
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
221 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 80,000 homes — about as many homes as this constituency has. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 2.9× the renewable capacity actually running here.
9 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£4.0m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 43,662 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 9 waiting projects · years since approval
Myttons Solar Farm 50 MW
5.4 YRS
Twitch Hill, Cheswell Grange Farm - Solar Farm & Battery Storage 25 MW
4.1 YRS
The Old Airfield - Solar Farm 49 MW
3.4 YRS
County Lane - Solar farm 16 MW
3.4 YRS
Steeraway Farm - Solar Farm 30 MW
3.2 YRS
High Ercall Solar Farm 50 MW
2.9 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Myttons Solar FarmSolar Photovoltaics18,000 homes49.9 MW2021-035.4 yrs
High Ercall Solar FarmSolar Photovoltaics18,000 homes49.9 MW2023-082.9 yrs
The Old Airfield - Solar FarmSolar Photovoltaics18,000 homes49.0 MW2023-033.4 yrs
Steeraway Farm - Solar FarmSolar Photovoltaics11,000 homes30.0 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Twitch Hill, Cheswell Grange Farm - Solar Farm & Battery StorageSolar Photovoltaics9,100 homes25.0 MW2022-064.1 yrs
County Lane - Solar farmSolar Photovoltaics5,800 homes16.0 MW2023-033.4 yrs
Greenhous Village, Osbaston - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.8 MW2022-113.7 yrs
Sugden Farm - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.4 MW2023-083.0 yrs
Cheswardine Hall Residential Home - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2024-032.4 yrs

Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.

Batteries

projects of 10 MW and above · planning database, July 2026 · what batteries do →
SiteSizeStatusWhile discharging
Hollins Lane - Battery Energy Storage13 MWapproved, not built 2023could supply ≈46,000 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 →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Mark Pritchard said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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