Rother Valley
Rother Valley has 49 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 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, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,332 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 143 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moat Lane, Wickersley - Battery Storage FacilityNewton Energi Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2024/0063 |
| Moat Lane, Wickersley - Battery Storage FacilityHarmony Energy Storage | Battery | 100 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2024/0321 |
| Green Lane, Thurcroft - Battery Energy Storage FacilityNewton Energi Limited | Battery | 85 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2022/1767 |
| Thurcroft Interchange Energy Park - Battery Energy Storage SystemExagen | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rotherham Council · planning ref RB2025/0714 |
| Thurcroft Interchange Energy Park - Solar FarmExagen | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rotherham Council · planning ref RB2025/0714 |
| Common Farm - Solar Farm & Battery StorageBanks Renewable | Solar | 49 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2022/1203 |
| Common Farm - Solar Farm & Battery StorageBanks Renewable | Battery | 49 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2022/1203 |
| New South Farm, Piper Lane - Solar FarmAbei Energy Group | Solar | 31 MW11,000 homes | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rotherham Council · planning ref RB2025/0029 |
| New South Farm, Piper Lane - Solar FarmAbei Energy Group | Battery | 12 MW | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rotherham Council · planning ref RB2025/0029 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rother Valley | 49 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| North East Derbyshire | 50 MW | 9 MW | not visible |
| Bolsover | 35 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| Bassetlaw | 114 MW | 85 MW | not visible |
| Rotherham | 0.5 MW | 2.6 MW | not visible |
| Rawmarsh and Conisbrough | 2.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Bassetlaw next door has 114 MW waiting, more than Rother Valley's 49 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.