North West Leicestershire
North West Leicestershire has 7.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,700 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,775 homes.
Ranks 238 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remembrance Way - Battery Energy Storage SystemRoot Power South Limited | Battery | 99 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01376/FULM |
| Charley Road - Solar FarmNamene Solar | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 2.7 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: North West Leicestershire Council · planning ref P/23/2029/2 |
| Unit 3, Wilders Way - Solar Photovoltaic PanelsThe Very Group | Solar | 4.2 MW1,500 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/00422/FULM |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North West Leicestershire | 7.5 MW | 64 MW | not visible |
| Hinckley and Bosworth | 80 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Mid Leicestershire | 2.8 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Loughborough | 95 MW | 43 MW | not visible |
| Rushcliffe | 163 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| Erewash | 0.4 MW | 0.6 MW | not visible |
Rushcliffe next door has 163 MW waiting, more than North West Leicestershire's 7.5 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.