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Ely and East Cambridgeshire
Ely and East Cambridgeshire has 145 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 53,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,828 homes. A 90 MW battery was refused planning here in 2026; while discharging it could have supplied about 315,000 homes.
Ranks 36 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wicken Bridleway, Church Road - Battery Energy StorageGreen Switch Capital Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00303/FUM |
| Land Southwest of Hightown Drove, Burwell - Battery Energy Storage SystemGrenergy Renewables UK Limited | Battery | 90 MW | Refused by East Cambridgeshire Council in 2026Who can move it: East Cambridgeshire Council · planning ref 25/00639/FUM |
| Newmarket Road, Bottisham - Battery Energy StorageRidge Clean Energy Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01291/ESF |
| Anchor Lane, Burwell - Battery Energy StorageBurwell AL Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00160/ESF |
| Burwell Anchor Lane Farm, Newnham Drove - Solar PanelsBurwell AL Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00393/FUM |
| Burwell Solar FarmEDF Energy Renewables | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20/00557/ESF |
| Newmarket Road, Bottisham - Solar ArrayRidge Clean Energy 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 22/01291/ESF |
| Reach RoadUK Power Networks | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/00655/SON |
| Long Barrow Solar Farm ProjectLow Carbon Solar Park 42 Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Cambridgeshire Council · planning ref 25/00770/ESF |
| Weirs Drove, Burwell - Battery Storage FacilityFen Power 1 Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Waiting 5.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Cambridgeshire Council · planning ref 21/00816/FUL |
| North Angle FarmCambridgeshire County Council / Bouygues ES | Solar | 29 MW11,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20/00761/CCA |
| Chittering Solar Farm - extension 2Abbey Renewables (North Fen Solar Energy) | Solar | 9.6 MW3,500 homes | Approved 11 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S/1331/14/FL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ely and East Cambridgeshire | 145 MW | 257 MW | not visible |
| Huntingdon | 32 MW | 157 MW | not visible |
| South Cambridgeshire | 27 MW | 251 MW | not visible |
| Cambridge | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire | 52 MW | 10 MW | not visible |
| North East Cambridgeshire | 2.9 MW | 156 MW | not visible |
Ely and East Cambridgeshire 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
- 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.