Thirsk and Malton
Thirsk and Malton has 7.2 MW of clean power (mostly solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 4,100 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,580 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boythorpe Farm - Wind Turbines | Wind Onshore | 1,200 homes | 1.3 MW | 2022-12 | 3.7 yrs |
| Allison Wold Farm, Simon Howe - Wind Farm Repowering | Wind Onshore | 1,100 homes | 1.3 MW | 2023-06 | 3.2 yrs |
| Vale Of Mowbray Limited - Solar Photovoltaic System | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.0 MW | 2022-06 | 4.1 yrs |
| Haven Leisure, Primrose Avenue - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.7 MW | 2023-04 | 3.3 yrs |
| Cranswick Gourmet Pastry, Hugden Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.7 MW | 2022-12 | 3.6 yrs |
| Marshall aerospace, Kirkbymoorside - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2024-01 | 2.6 yrs |
| Deep Sea Electronics, Bridlington - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Duggleby Wold Farmhouse - Wind Turbine | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Reighton Sands Holiday Village, Sands Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-04 | 3.3 yrs |
| Filey Waste Water Treatment Works, Carr House Farm - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| Malton Wastewater Treatment Works, Seven Lane Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-11 | 2.7 yrs |
| Forum Subsea Technologies, Ings Lane - Solar PV System | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-01 | 3.6 yrs |
| Cedar Retreats, West Tanfield - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
| Fosters Wold Farm, Weaverthorpe - Solar PV Array | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2022-04 | 4.3 yrs |
Plus 9 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Third Energy UK Gas Limited - Battery Energy Storage | 100 MW | approved, not built 2021 | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| Windmill Farm Solar Farm (Old Malton) | 13 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈44,000 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 Kevin Hollinrake said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →