Hinckley and Bosworth
Hinckley and Bosworth has 80 MW of clean power (almost 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,853 homes.
Ranks 82 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stoneshollow Solar FarmJBM Solar Projects 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 21/01395/FUL |
| Kirkby RoadNext Power SPV 7 / Intelligent Alternatives | Solar | 24 MW8,500 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 19/01379/FUL |
| Heath Road, Bagworth - Solar FarmRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Solar | 22 MW7,800 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Hinckley and Bosworth Council · planning ref 25/00692/FUL |
| Barns Heath Farm - Wind TurbinesVictre Limited | Onshore wind | 2 MW1,700 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01700/FUL |
| Triumph Motorcycles, Normandy Way - Solar PV ArrayTriumph Motorcycles Limited | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00755/FUL |
| Mercia Park, Burton Road - Solar PV PanelsDSV | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00126/PNM |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hinckley and Bosworth | 80 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Nuneaton | 1.6 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| North Warwickshire and Bedworth | 80 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Tamworth | 113 MW | 2 MW | not visible |
| Rugby | 77 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| South Leicestershire | 125 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
South Leicestershire next door has 125 MW waiting, more than Hinckley and Bosworth's 80 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.