Gedling
Gedling has 7 MW of renewables running, enough for 3,400 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,564 homes.
Ranks 453 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burton Wood Farm, Spring Lane - Battery Energy StorageGrenergy Renewables | Battery | 320 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2024/0269 |
| ENVA England, Road Number 4 - Solar PanelsENVA England Limited | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PN/4749 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gedling | 0.8 MW | 7.2 MW | not visible |
| Rushcliffe | 163 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| Nottingham East | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Nottingham North and Kimberley | 17 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sherwood Forest | 3.2 MW | 125 MW | not visible |
| Newark | 295 MW | 110 MW | not visible |
Newark next door has 295 MW waiting, more than Gedling's 0.8 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.