Mid Derbyshire
Mid Derbyshire has 1.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 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, £3.5m across the constituency's 38,559 homes.
Ranks 394 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boyah Grange Solar Farm, Potato Pit Lane - Solar FarmABEI Energy Group | Solar | 35 MW13,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Erewash Council · planning ref 0825/0028 |
| Pinnacle Storage Park, Dale Abbey - Solar PV PanelsHansteen Property Investments | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 0322/0080 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Derbyshire | 1.2 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Erewash | 0.4 MW | 0.6 MW | not visible |
| South Derbyshire | 0 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
| Derby South | 3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Derby North | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Amber Valley | 28 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Amber Valley next door has 28 MW waiting, more than Mid Derbyshire's 1.2 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
- 2 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.