Peterborough
Peterborough has 67 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 24,000 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, £4.6m across the constituency's 49,765 homes. There is also 30 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 99 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nutsgrove Farm, Thorney - Battery Energy StorageCambridge Power Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01746/FUL |
| Third Drove, Fengate - Battery StorageFlag Fen Power Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00740/FUL |
| Nutsgrove Farm, Thorney - Solar ArrayCambridge Power Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01746/FUL |
| Malice Farm, French Drove - Solar FarmFRV TH Powertek Limited | 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 25/01028/FUL |
| Malice Farm, French Drove - BESSFRV TH Powertek Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/01028/FUL |
| Dogsthorpe, Welland Road - Solar Farm & Battery StorageInfinis Solar Developments Limited | Solar | 14 MW5,100 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01579/FUL |
Plus 3 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peterborough | 67 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| North West Cambridgeshire | 13 MW | 20 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 Holland and The Deepings next door has 130 MW waiting, more than Peterborough's 67 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.