Mid Buckinghamshire
Mid Buckinghamshire has 136 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 49,000 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 39,109 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whirlbush Farm, Kingsey - Solar Farm & Battery StorageWhirlbush Farm, Risborough Road, Kingsey, Aylesbury | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
| Callie's Solar FarmCallie's Solar Farm Owlswick Road Ford | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Moat Farm - Solar FarmMoat Farm, Bishopstone, Aylesbury | Solar Photovoltaics | 8,700 homes | 24.1 MW | 2022-02 | 4.4 yrs |
| Bumpers Farm Phase 2Land North Of Bumpers Farm, Ilmer Lane, Ilmer, Buckinghamshire | Solar Photovoltaics | 4,400 homes | 12.0 MW | 2015-10 | 10.8 yrs |
| Haddenham Garden Centre, Stanbridge Road - Solar PanelsHaddenham Garden Centre Stanbridge Road Haddenham | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2023-02 | 3.4 yrs |
Plus 5 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Claydon Substation, East Claydon Road - Energy Storage | 500 MW | in planning | could supply ≈1,752,000 homes |
| Bumpers Lane Solar Farm | 13 MW | could supply ≈47,000 homes |
What this page does not show
Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.
Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.
Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →
What has Greg Smith said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →