Boston and Skegness
Boston and Skegness has 125 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 46,000 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, £4.6m across the constituency's 50,378 homes. There is also 29 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 45 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bicker Fen Bess, Vicarage Drove - Battery StorageFRV TH Powertek Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref B/24/0415 |
| Boston Alternative Energy Facility (BAEF)Alternative Use Boston Projects | EfW Incineration | 102 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010095 |
| Bicker Drove - Battery Energy Storage SystemNet Zero Twenty Two Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref B/24/0374 |
| Low Farm Solar FarmGresham House / Anesco Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref S/195/02340/20 |
| Vicarage Drove - Solar farm & Battery storageRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref B/21/0443 |
| Vicarage Drove - Solar farm & Battery storageRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref B/21/0443 |
| Mallows Lane - Solar Farm & Battery StoragePathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S/152/01297/22 |
| Manor Farm Energy StorageInnova Renewables Limited | Battery | 10 MW | Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S/051/00772/17 |
| Boston Landfill, Wyberton - Solar PV ArrayInfinis Solar Developments Limited | Solar | 9.7 MW3,500 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref PL/0079/21 |
| Mallows Lane - Solar Farm & Battery StoragePathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Battery | 5.3 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S/152/01297/22 |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston and Skegness | 125 MW | 113 MW | not visible |
| South Holland and The Deepings | 130 MW | 113 MW | not visible |
| Grantham and Bourne | 151 MW | 120 MW | not visible |
| Sleaford and North Hykeham | 43 MW | 59 MW | not visible |
| Louth and Horncastle | 15 MW | 96 MW | not visible |
Grantham and Bourne next door has 151 MW waiting, more than Boston and Skegness's 125 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.