CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Newark
Newark has 295 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 107,000 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,490 homes.
Ranks 13 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great North Road Solar ParkElements Green | Solar | 800 MW290,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects) · planning ref EN010162 |
| One Earth Solar FarmOrsted UK Limited / PS Renewables | Solar | 740 MW269,000 homes | Cannot connect to the grid until 2029, 3 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid · earliest connection 2029 · planning ref EN010159 |
| Torksey Ferry Road, Rampton - Battery Energy StorageTribus Clean Energy Limited | Battery | 500 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01470/FUL |
| West Burton Power Station, North Road - Battery StorageFidra Energy / Drax | Battery | 500 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01713/FUL |
| Steeple Renewables ProjectRenewable Energy Systems RES Limited (Beaufort) | Solar | 450 MW163,000 homes | Waiting 15 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects) · earliest connection 2029 · planning ref EN010163 |
| Polly Taylors Road, High Marnham - Battery Energy Storage SystemField Energy | Battery | 400 MW | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Bassetlaw Council · planning ref 25/00639/FUL |
| Staythorpe Road - Battery energy storageEcap Renewables (Elements Green) | Battery | 360 MW | Still in the grid queue review — no firm connection date yetWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2030 · planning ref 22/01840/FULM |
| Staythorpe Road, Averham - Battery StorageSSE Battery Storage Limited | Battery | 300 MW | Waiting 3.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Newark and Sherwood Council · planning ref 23/00317/FULM |
| Steeple Renewables ProjectRenewable Energy Systems RES Limited (Beaufort) | Battery | 150 MW | Waiting 15 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects) · planning ref EN010163 |
| Cottom Power StationEDF Energy Thermal Generation Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 5.8 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Bassetlaw Council · planning ref 20/01288/CTP |
| Main Street, Kelham - Solar Farm & Battery Energy StorageAssured Asset Solar 2 Limited (Peridot Solar) | Battery | 50 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01837/FULM |
| Winkburn Estate Solar FarmLightsource SPV 154 Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20/02501/FULM |
Plus 16 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark | 295 MW | 110 MW | not visible |
| Grantham and Bourne | 151 MW | 120 MW | not visible |
| Sleaford and North Hykeham | 43 MW | 59 MW | not visible |
| Gainsborough | 583 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| Melton and Syston | 76 MW | 34 MW | not visible |
| Rushcliffe | 163 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
Gainsborough next door has 583 MW waiting, more than Newark's 295 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.