North West Norfolk
North West Norfolk has 166 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 61,000 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 45,613 homes. There is also 24 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 27 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lapwing Fen 2 - Battery Storage PlantTribus Clean Energy | Battery | 250 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 19/02004/FM |
| Walsoken, Burrettgate Road - Battery Storage FacilityWalsoken Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02302/FM |
| Walpole Bank - Battery Energy Storage FacilityField Devco Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Waiting 3.7 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: King's Lynn and West Norfolk Council · planning ref 22/02021/FM |
| Walpole St Andrew - Battery storageAlfred Energy Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00438/FM |
| North Walpole, St Peter - Battery Energy StorageRoc Noir Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01803/FM |
| Walpole Sub Station, Walpole Bank - Battery StorageHenry Energy Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02021/F |
| Walpole Sub Station, Walpole Bank - Battery StorageHenry Energy Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02265/FM |
| Lapwing Fen II, Crown FarmPrivate Developer | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 19/02002/FM |
| Estuary Farm, Edward Benefer Way - Solar Farm & Battery StorageNamene Solar | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01432/FM |
| Meerdyke Solar Panels & Battery StorageDowning Renewable Developments Llp | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01987/FM |
| Model FarmTribus Clean Energy | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01715/FM |
| Walpole BankDIF Capital Partners / Green Investment Group | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20/01508/FM |
Plus 5 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North West Norfolk | 166 MW | 82 MW | not visible |
| North East Cambridgeshire | 2.9 MW | 156 MW | not visible |
| South Holland and The Deepings | 130 MW | 113 MW | not visible |
| South West Norfolk | 1.5 MW | 69 MW | not visible |
| Mid Norfolk | 129 MW | 38 MW | not visible |
| Broadland and Fakenham | 46 MW | 100 MW | not visible |
North West Norfolk 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.