Wetherby and Easingwold
Wetherby and Easingwold has 2.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 38,999 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildon grange, Mill Field Lane - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| J Revis & Sons, South Field Lane - Solar PV System | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Harrogate South Waste Water Treatment Works - Ground Mounted Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2023-06 | 3.2 yrs |
| Rabbit Hill Park, Allerton Park - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Pond View Farm, Tholthorpe - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
| Harrogate Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-09 | 3.9 yrs |
| Newby Hall Estate, The Stables - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| Limebar Lane - Energy Distribution Centre | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2022-08 | 3.9 yrs |
Plus 9 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warren Lane, Bramham - Battery Energy Storage | 35 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈123,000 homes |
| Wormald Green - Battery Energy Storage System | 33 MW | 2022 | could supply ≈116,000 homes |
| Boscar Grange Farm | 27 MW | could supply ≈95,000 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 Alec Shelbrooke said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →