North East Cambridgeshire
North East Cambridgeshire has 2.9 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,100 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,083 homes. There is also 133 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 300 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medworth EfWMVV Environment | EfW Incineration | 58 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010110 |
| Treading Bank Solar FarmRenewable Connections | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Refused by Fenland Council in 2025Who can move it: Fenland Council · planning ref F/YR25/0758/F |
| West Fen Farm, Whitemoor Road - Solar FarmPathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Fenland Council · planning ref F/YR25/0413/F |
| West Fen Farm, Whitemoor Road - Battery StoragePathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Fenland Council · planning ref F/YR25/0413/F |
| Tydd Solar FarmPathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Refused by Powys Council in 2025Who can move it: Powys Council · planning ref H19-0329-24 |
| Tydd Solar FarmPathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Refused by Fenland Council in 2025Who can move it: Fenland Council · planning ref F/YR24/0457/F |
| Tydd Solar FarmPathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Battery | 15 MW | Refused by Powys Council in 2025Who can move it: Powys Council · planning ref H19-0329-24 |
| Tydd Solar FarmPathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Battery | 15 MW | Refused by Fenland Council in 2025Who can move it: Fenland Council · planning ref F/YR24/0457/F |
| Kings Dyke, Whittlesey - Battery Energy StoragePower Initiatives Limited | Battery | 10 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref F/YR24/0932/F |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North East Cambridgeshire | 2.9 MW | 156 MW | not visible |
| Huntingdon | 32 MW | 157 MW | not visible |
| North West Cambridgeshire | 13 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
| Peterborough | 67 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| South Holland and The Deepings | 130 MW | 113 MW | not visible |
| Ely and East Cambridgeshire | 145 MW | 257 MW | not visible |
Ely and East Cambridgeshire next door has 145 MW waiting, more than North East Cambridgeshire's 2.9 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.