Torridge and Tavistock
Torridge and Tavistock has 70 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 25,000 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,328 homes. There is also 25 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 97 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gammaton Barton Farm, Alverdiscott - Battery Energy StorageTorridge District Council | Battery | 100 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1/0268/2025/FULM |
| West Webbery Farm, The Water - Battery Energy StorageEnray SPV 241491 Limited | Battery | 99 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Torridge Council · planning ref 1/0939/2025/FULM |
| Coldharbour Farm, Ashreigney - Solar Photovoltaic ArrayColdharbour Solar Park Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1/0823/2021/FULM |
| Bulworthy Farm, Stoney Cross - Solar Photovoltaic ArrayNoventum Power Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Torridge Council · planning ref 1/0470/2025/FULM |
| Bulworthy Farm, Stoney Cross - Solar Photovoltaic ArrayNoventum Power Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Torridge Council · planning ref 1/0470/2025/FULM |
| Stoneworthy - Battery Energy Storage SystemRES Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1/0514/2024/FULM |
| Deptford Farm, Ebberley Hill - Solar FarmElgin Energy ES Co Limited | Solar | 28 MW10,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1/1225/2023/FULM |
| Pinkworthy Farm, Pyworthy - Battery StoragePrivate Developer | Battery | 25 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1/0127/2024/FUL |
| East Rightadown Farm, Brandis Corner - Solar FarmBlack Torrington Solar Limited | Solar | 7.6 MW2,800 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1/1300/2022/FULM |
| Limebury Farm, Horns Cross - Solar FarmGreen Switch Capital Limited | Solar | 6.5 MW2,400 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 1/1096/2022/FULM |
| Bulkworthy Solar ParkEcotricity | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Approved 10 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1/1177/2015/FULM |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torridge and Tavistock | 70 MW | 188 MW | not visible |
| South Devon | 2.7 MW | 54 MW | not visible |
| South West Devon | 20 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| South East Cornwall | 1.9 MW | 119 MW | not visible |
| North Cornwall | 10 MW | 197 MW | not visible |
| Central Devon | 11 MW | 41 MW | not visible |
Torridge and Tavistock 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.