Mid Bedfordshire
Mid Bedfordshire has 43 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,057 homes.
Ranks 155 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sundon, Chalton - Battery Energy Storage SystemStatera Energy | Battery | 500 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref CB/25/01098/FULL |
| Toddington Services, Hipsey Spinney - Battery StorageKona Energy Limited | Battery | 250 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref CB/24/00414/FULL |
| Sundon Sub Station Battery Storage FacilityClearstone Energy Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref CB/21/02107/FULL |
| Brogborough Landfill, Lidlington - Solar PV parkInfinis Solar Developments Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref CB/22/00548/MW |
| Greenfield Road - Samphill Solar FarmAnesco Limited | Solar | 38 MW14,000 homes | Refused by Central Bedfordshire Council in 2026Who can move it: Central Bedfordshire Council · planning ref CB/25/02017/FULL |
| Green Lane, Stewartby - Solar PV ArrayInfinis Solar Developments Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Waiting 4.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Bedford Council · planning ref 22/00450/FULWM |
| Greenfield Road, Westoning - Battery Energy Storage SystemCragside Energy Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref CB/24/02938/FULL |
| Clayhill Farm, Greenfield Road - Battery Energy StorageConrad Energy (Developments) Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref CB/24/02825/FULL |
| The Brickmakers Arms BatteryFPC Industry & Enterprise 2 Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/00300/FUL |
| Stone Lane Quarry, Woburn Road - Solar Array AreaArnold White Estates Limited | Solar | 5.1 MW1,900 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Central Bedfordshire Council · planning ref CB/25/02340/FULL |
Plus 3 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Bedfordshire | 43 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Buckingham and Bletchley | 130 MW | 60 MW | not visible |
| Luton North | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard | 76 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| Hitchin | 50 MW | 33 MW | not visible |
| Milton Keynes Central | 7.3 MW | 3.1 MW | not visible |
Buckingham and Bletchley next door has 130 MW waiting, more than Mid Bedfordshire's 43 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.