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North Warwickshire and Bedworth
North Warwickshire and Bedworth has 80 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 29,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,472 homes.
Ranks 81 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hams Hall - Battery Energy Storage SystemWelbar Energy Storage Limited / Penso Power (BW ESS) | Battery | 400 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref PAP/2021/0473 |
| Hams Hall, Hams Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemEon UK Plc | Battery | 98 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PAP/2025/0227 |
| Camp Farm, Knowle Hill - Battery StorageAmpyr Solar Europe | Battery | 50 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PAP/2024/0586 |
| Marston Sewerage Pumping Station, Bodymoor Heath Lane - Battery StorageAnesco Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Warwickshire Council · planning ref PAP/2025/0179 |
| Lichfield Road, Watton Lane - Battery StorageAnglo ES Water Orton Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PAP/2023/0056 |
| Camp Farm, Knowle Hill - Solar FarmAmpyr Solar Europe | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PAP/2024/0586 |
| Park House Farm, Meriden Road - Solar FarmEnviromena Asset Management UK Limited | Solar | 48 MW17,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PAP/2023/0071 |
| Mcdonnell Drive, Exhall - Battery Energy Storage SystemGreenfield Energy Developments Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 41030 |
| Park Lane, Astley - Solar PV FarmTor Energy Solar Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PAP/2021/0651 |
| Corley Smorral Lane - Photovoltaic Solar ArraysBarrs Family Enterprises Limited | Solar | 16 MW6,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PAP/2021/0605 |
| Vauls Farm, Astley Lane - Solar FarmIndustria Solar Bedworth Limited | Solar | 16 MW5,800 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PAP/2022/0544 |
| Hams Hall National Distribution ParkRolton Kilbride | Advanced Conversion Technologies | 14 MW | Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref NWB/16CM011 |
Plus 11 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Warwickshire and Bedworth | 80 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Coventry East | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Meriden and Solihull East | 1.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Coventry North West | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Nuneaton | 1.6 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Hinckley and Bosworth | 80 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
North Warwickshire and Bedworth 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.