Melton and Syston
Melton and Syston has 76 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 28,000 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,205 homes.
Ranks 89 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jericho Covert Solar FarmGreen Farm Solar 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 20/01182/FUL |
| Belvoir Estate - Solar farmJBM Solar Projects Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00537/FUL |
| Freeby Lane, Green Energy Park - Solar Panels & Battery StorageDowning Renewable Developments | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Melton Council · planning ref 24/01198/FUL |
| Woodfold Lane, Brentingby - Solar FarmWindel Solar 12 Limited | Solar | 45 MW16,000 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Melton Council · planning ref 25/00703/FUL |
| Syston Road - Solar FarmBarber Farm Partnership | Solar | 26 MW9,400 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref P/21/2661/2 |
| Old Hall Solar farmRenewable Connections | Solar | 22 MW8,200 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01101/FUL |
| Potters~ Hill Solar Photovoltaic ArraysJBM Solar Projects 39 Limited | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Waiting 21 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Melton Council · planning ref 24/00972/FUL |
| Woodfold Lane, Brentingby - Solar FarmNoventum Power Limited | Solar | 12 MW4,400 homes | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Melton Council · planning ref 24/01188/FUL |
| Twyford, Melton - Solar FarmNoventum Power Limited | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00870/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melton and Syston | 76 MW | 34 MW | not visible |
| Leicester East | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Mid Leicestershire | 2.8 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Rutland and Stamford | 379 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Grantham and Bourne | 151 MW | 120 MW | not visible |
| Loughborough | 95 MW | 43 MW | not visible |
Rutland and Stamford next door has 379 MW waiting, more than Melton and Syston's 76 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.