Milton Keynes North
Milton Keynes North has 4.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,500 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 40,657 homes.
Ranks 273 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salcey Green Farm - Solar PanelsSalcey Green Farm | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Refused by Milton Keynes Council in 2024Who can move it: Milton Keynes Council · planning ref 24/00830/FUL |
| Mercedes Benz UK - Solar array car portMercedes Benz Retail Group Limited | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01669/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Keynes North | 4.2 MW | 52 MW | not visible |
| Buckingham and Bletchley | 130 MW | 60 MW | not visible |
| South Northamptonshire | 104 MW | 85 MW | not visible |
| Mid Bedfordshire | 43 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Milton Keynes Central | 7.3 MW | 3.1 MW | not visible |
| North Bedfordshire | 74 MW | 97 MW | not visible |
Buckingham and Bletchley next door has 130 MW waiting, more than Milton Keynes North's 4.2 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.