Sherwood Forest
Sherwood Forest has 3.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,200 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 44,031 homes. There is also 27 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 294 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Featherstone House FarmC A Strawson Ltd | Solar | 3.2 MW1,200 homes | Approved 10 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 13/00893/FULM |
| ITP Aero, Harrier Park - Solar PanelsITP Aero UK | Solar | 1.9 MW700 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref X/2024/0041 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwood Forest | 3.2 MW | 125 MW | not visible |
| Broxtowe | 0 MW | 2.5 MW | not visible |
| Nottingham North and Kimberley | 17 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Gedling | 0.8 MW | 7.2 MW | not visible |
| Ashfield | 7.8 MW | 4.7 MW | not visible |
| Newark | 295 MW | 110 MW | not visible |
Newark next door has 295 MW waiting, more than Sherwood Forest's 3.2 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.