Sittingbourne and Sheppey
Sittingbourne and Sheppey has 64 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 23,000 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,242 homes. There is also 22 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 104 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Rides Farm, Leysdown Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemNat Power | Battery | 1,000 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Swale Council · planning ref 25/503466/FULL |
| Ridham Avenue, Swale Way - Kemsley Battery Energy StorageOuse Energy Limited | Battery | 249 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/505752/FULL |
| Kemsley Energy Park Battery StorageFPC Electric Land limited | Battery | 120 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/500771/FULL |
| Kemsley Fields Business Park - Hydrogen Renewable Energy Generation PlantLHYFE UK Limited | Hydrogen | 80 MW | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Swale Council · planning ref 26/500243/FULL |
| Raspberry - Solar PVRWE | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/502778/EIFUL |
| Land off Queenborough RoadUK Power Reserve | Battery | 40 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 17/503032/FULL |
| Plot 2B EurolinkVTrenport Investments | Battery | 20 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 19/502257/FULL |
| New Rides Farm - Photovoltaic PanelsEnergieKontor UK Limited | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/503240/FULL |
Plus 3 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sittingbourne and Sheppey | 64 MW | 66 MW | not visible |
| Faversham and Mid Kent | 1.5 MW | 407 MW | not visible |
| Gillingham and Rainham | 2.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Sittingbourne and Sheppey 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.