Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme has 83 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 30,000 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, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,343 homes. There is also 141 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 78 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tween Bridge Solar FarmRWE | Solar | 800 MW290,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects) · planning ref EN010148 |
| The Tween Bridge Solar FarmRWE | Battery | 400 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2029Who can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid · earliest connection 2029 · planning ref EN010148 |
| Pilfrey Solar Farm - Solar FarmCulham Renewables Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: North Lincolnshire Council · planning ref PA/2025/444 |
| Warren Farm Solar Farm & Battery StorageEnso Green Holdings I Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/02567/FULM |
| North Moor Farm, Keadby - Solar PanelsLidsey Renewables Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: North Lincolnshire Council · planning ref PA/2025/445 |
| Partridge Hill Solar FarmGreen Switch Solutions/Belvedere Energy Developments | Solar | 33 MW12,000 homes | Approved 10 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 15/01268/FULM |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme | 83 MW | 146 MW | not visible |
| Bassetlaw | 114 MW | 85 MW | not visible |
| Doncaster Central | 62 MW | 4.2 MW | not visible |
| Doncaster North | 3.8 MW | 21 MW | not visible |
| Goole and Pocklington | 63 MW | 150 MW | not visible |
Bassetlaw next door has 114 MW waiting, more than Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme's 83 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.