Lancaster and Wyre
Lancaster and Wyre has 45 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 16,000 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 39,163 homes.
Ranks 153 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant Farm, Green Lane - Battery StorageBarton Battery Storage | Battery | 45 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 06/2022/0763 |
| Moorside Farm - Solar FarmOpdenergy UK Limited | Solar | 28 MW10,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00017/FUL |
| Turners Lane, Barnacre - Solar FarmNoventum Power Limited | Solar | 23 MW8,300 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00902/FULMAJ |
| Lower House Farm, Lewth Lane - Solar FarmGreentech | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 06/2025/0136 |
| Hazelrigg Lane, Scotforth - Solar FarmBeBa Energy UK Limited / University of Lancaster | Solar | 16 MW6,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/01247/FUL |
| Eagland Hill - Solar ArrayEuropean Energy Photovoltaics Limited | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Waiting 24 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wyre Council · planning ref 24/00603/LMAJ |
| Snapewood Solar FarmABEI Energy | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00294/LMAJ |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster and Wyre | 45 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| Fylde | 26 MW | 31 MW | not visible |
| Ribble Valley | 1.3 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Morecambe and Lunesdale | 3.5 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
Lancaster and Wyre 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.