Bassetlaw
Bassetlaw has 114 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 41,000 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,676 homes.
Ranks 53 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elkesley Southbound, Elkesley - Battery Energy Storage SystemMespil Solar Energy | Battery | 480 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Bassetlaw Council · planning ref 25/00519/FUL |
| Gainsborough Road, Saundby - Battery Storage FacilityEnso Energy / Cero Generation | Battery | 120 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/00358/FUL |
| Gainsborough Road, Saundby - Solar FarmEnso Energy / Cero Generation | Solar | 78 MW28,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/00358/FUL |
| Adj To The A614 - SolarOne Planet Developments Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Waiting 2.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Bassetlaw Council · planning ref 24/00384/FUL |
| Hundred Acre Lane, Carlton In Lindrick - Solar PanelsElawan Energy | Solar | 34 MW12,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Bassetlaw Council · planning ref 25/00812/FUL |
| Rayton Farm Lane - Solar FarmHarmony Energy Limited | Solar | 34 MW12,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01444/FUL |
| Steeley Lane, Steetley - Solar Photovoltaic FarmRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Solar | 19 MW6,800 homes | Waiting 2.7 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Bassetlaw Council · planning ref 23/01399/FUL |
Plus 3 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bassetlaw | 114 MW | 85 MW | not visible |
| Sherwood Forest | 3.2 MW | 125 MW | not visible |
| Newark | 295 MW | 110 MW | not visible |
| Mansfield | 46 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| Bolsover | 35 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| Rother Valley | 49 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
Newark next door has 295 MW waiting, more than Bassetlaw's 114 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 3 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.