Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Dales has 16 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 5,900 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,778 homes.
Ranks 210 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brailsford Solar Park, Main Road - Solar PanelsBritish Solar Renewables | Solar | 55 MW20,000 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Derbyshire Dales Council · planning ref 26/00495/EIA |
| Hawthorn Farm - Solar photovoltaic panelsUnknown | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref DMPA/2021/0315 |
| Hoon Hay Manor, Hatton - Solar FarmHoon Hay Solar Limited | Solar | 5.1 MW1,900 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DMPA/2021/1585 |
| Brassington Works, Manystones Lane - Solar FarmHoben International Limited | Solar | 4.3 MW1,600 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01271/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derbyshire Dales | 16 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| South Derbyshire | 0 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
| Mid Derbyshire | 1.2 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Amber Valley | 28 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| North East Derbyshire | 50 MW | 9 MW | not visible |
| Burton and Uttoxeter | 3 MW | 58 MW | not visible |
North East Derbyshire next door has 50 MW waiting, more than Derbyshire Dales's 16 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
- 2 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.