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Derby South

MP: Baggy Shanker (Labour (Co-op)) England Data to July 2026

Derby South has 3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,100 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 45,075 homes.

Ranks 296 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Victory Park Way - Solar PanelsGardner Aerospace Solar 1.3 MW500 homes Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00242/FUL

Compared with its neighbours

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
Derby South 3 MW0 MWnot visible
South Derbyshire 0 MW22 MWnot visible
Derby North 0.9 MW0 MWnot visible
Mid Derbyshire 1.2 MW5 MWnot visible

Derby South has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.

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
  • 2 story angles for local reporting
  • A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
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