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North Dorset
North Dorset has 97 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 35,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,125 homes.
Ranks 69 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaftesbury Energy Park - Battery Storage SystemTagEnergy | Battery | 100 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2036, 13 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid · earliest connection 2036 · planning ref P/FUL/2022/06179 |
| Fernbrook - Solar farm & Battery storageLow Carbon UK Solar Investment Company Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/FUL/2021/02046 |
| North Dairy Farm Solar FarmBritish Solar Renewables | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/FUL/2021/01018 |
| Woodlands Manor Farm, Horton - Solar FarmBayWa r.e. UKLimited / Grüne Energien Projekt UG | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/FUL/2023/03415 |
| North Farm, Horton - Solar FarmNorth Farm Mannington Solar Limited / BayWa r.e. | Solar | 19 MW6,900 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/FUL/2023/02829 |
| Blandford Hill - EV Charging Station & Solar FarmNaturalis Energy Developments Limited | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/FUL/2021/02622 |
| Motcombe Road, Motcombe - Solar Pv ArraysEnviromena | Solar | 12 MW4,400 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Dorset Council · planning ref P/FUL/2025/03674 |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dorset | 97 MW | 94 MW | not visible |
| Mid Dorset and North Poole | 3.3 MW | 90 MW | not visible |
| Christchurch | 36 MW | 128 MW | not visible |
| Salisbury | 52 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| South West Wiltshire | 74 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| New Forest West | 24 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
North Dorset has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.