Torridge and Tavistock
Torridge and Tavistock has 70 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 25,000 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,328 homes. There is also 25 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coldharbour Farm, Ashreigney - Solar Photovoltaic Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 50.0 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| East Rightadown Farm, Brandis Corner - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 2,800 homes | 7.6 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| Limebury Farm, Horns Cross - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 2,400 homes | 6.5 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| Bulkworthy Solar Park | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,800 homes | 5.0 MW | 2016-05 | 10.2 yrs |
| Kingsley School, Northdown Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Morrisons Supermarket - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2022-01 | 4.5 yrs |
| Woodterrill Farm - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gammaton Barton Farm, Alverdiscott - Battery Energy Storage | 100 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| West Webbery Farm, The Water - Battery Energy Storage | 99 MW | in planning | could supply ≈348,000 homes |
| Bulworthy Farm, Stoney Cross - Solar Photovoltaic Array | 50 MW | in planning | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Stoneworthy - Battery Energy Storage System | 50 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Pinkworthy Farm, Pyworthy - Battery Storage | 25 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈88,000 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 Sir Geoffrey Cox said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →