Louth and Horncastle
Louth and Horncastle has 15 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 5,400 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,780 homes. There is also 68 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 212 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Ray Solar Farm, Lincoln Gate - Solar PanelsTotalEnergies (North Ray Solar Farm Limited) | Solar | 98 MW36,000 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: East Lindsey Council · planning ref 00444/26/FUL |
| Hatton Solar FarmPush Energy | 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 S/079/01078/22 |
| Fen Farm - Solar ParkEcotricity Limited | Solar | 14 MW5,100 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref N/036/00565/24 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louth and Horncastle | 15 MW | 96 MW | not visible |
| Sleaford and North Hykeham | 43 MW | 59 MW | not visible |
| Gainsborough | 583 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| Brigg and Immingham | 96 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| Boston and Skegness | 125 MW | 113 MW | not visible |
Gainsborough next door has 583 MW waiting, more than Louth and Horncastle's 15 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.