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Corby and East Northamptonshire
Corby and East Northamptonshire has 52 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 19,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.3m across the constituency's 47,039 homes.
Ranks 123 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wood Lodge Farm, Huntingdon Road - Solar FarmUnknown | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 2.9 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Northamptonshire Council · planning ref NE/23/00858/FUL |
| Foxholes Farm, Roman Road - Solar PanelsElgin Energy Esco Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 3.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Northamptonshire Council · planning ref NE/22/01411/FUL |
| Brigstock Solar FarmScottish Power Renewables | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/00207/FUL |
| The Grafton Solar Project - Solar Photovoltaic PanelsStantec | Solar | 39 MW14,000 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Northamptonshire Council · planning ref NE/25/00724/FUL |
| Wood Lodge Farm, Huntingdon Road - Solar FarmUnknown | Battery | 8.8 MW | Refused by North Northamptonshire Council in 2024Who can move it: North Northamptonshire Council · planning ref NE/23/00858/FUL |
| Rectory Farm - Anaerobic Digestion PlantGreat Heck Green Energy Limited | Anaerobic Digestion | 7 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref CCC/23/125/FUL |
Plus 5 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corby and East Northamptonshire | 52 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| North Bedfordshire | 74 MW | 97 MW | not visible |
| Wellingborough and Rushden | 1.2 MW | 81 MW | not visible |
| Huntingdon | 32 MW | 157 MW | not visible |
| Kettering | 49 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| North West Cambridgeshire | 13 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
North Bedfordshire next door has 74 MW waiting, more than Corby and East Northamptonshire's 52 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.