CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Rutland and Stamford
Rutland and Stamford has 379 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 138,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,908 homes.
Ranks 11 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mallard Pass Solar FarmCanadian Solar UK (Recurrent Energy ) / Windel Energy | Solar | 350 MW127,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010127 |
| Lumiere Solar FarmRWE Renewables UK 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 24/01038/FUL |
| Pilton Village, Luffenham Lane - Staveley Solar ArrayBluestone Energy Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2024/0300/MAF |
| Exton Lane, Burley - Solar Farm & Battery StorageEconergy International Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 18 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rutland Council · planning ref 2024/1482/MAF |
| Ranksborough FarmElgin Energy | Solar | 28 MW10,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2019/1249/MAF |
| Home Farm - Solar PV FarmRenewable Energy Systems (RES) | Solar | 28 MW10,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S24/2100 |
| Northorpe Fen Farm, Fen Road - Solar FarmAardvark EM Limited | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S25/1179 |
| Former Christian Salvesen, Burton Lane - Anaerobic Digestion PlantEaston Properties Limited | Anaerobic Digestion | 5 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/0022/24 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutland and Stamford | 379 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Harborough, Oadby and Wigston | 0.2 MW | 8.7 MW | not visible |
| Leicester South | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leicester East | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Kettering | 49 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| Corby and East Northamptonshire | 52 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
Rutland and Stamford 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.