Waveney Valley
Waveney Valley has 59 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 22,000 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 39,383 homes.
Ranks 109 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red House Farm, Old Norwich Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemThe Surrey Research Park | Battery | 520 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Mid Suffolk Council · planning ref DC/25/02824 |
| Market Lane And Carr Lane, Great Moulton - Battery Energy Storage SystemField Long Stratton Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: South Norfolk Council · planning ref 2025/1689 |
| Yaxley, Eye Airfield Industrial Estate - Battery Storage SystemField Yaxley Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/24/05535 |
| Norwich Road Industrial EstateEelpower Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref DC/21/0521/FUL |
| Semere Lane, Dickleburgh - Solar FarmRegener8 Power Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: South Norfolk Council · planning ref 2025/2000 |
| The Grange Solar Farm & Battery StoragePathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Solar | 48 MW17,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/22/02667 |
| Redisham Hall Farm, School Road - Solar PanelsOpdenergy | Solar | 42 MW15,000 homes | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Suffolk Council · planning ref DC/25/2109/FUL |
| Marsh Lane Solar Farm, Lion Road - Solar FarmAura Power Storage Solutions | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/23/05426 |
| Wissett Solar Farm, Wissett - Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Farm (Apple Tree)Pathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Solar | 27 MW9,800 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/22/3313/FUL |
| Station Road, Tivetshall St Margaret - Solar PV PanelsPathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2024/3817 |
| Wissett Solar Farm, Wissett - Battery Storage (Apple Tree)Pathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Battery | 10 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/22/3313/FUL |
| Suggenhall Farm - Photovoltaic Solar Array & Battery StorageRNA Energy Limited | Solar | 7.3 MW2,700 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/21/06825 |
Plus 4 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waveney Valley | 59 MW | 64 MW | not visible |
| Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | 177 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Suffolk Coastal | 52 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket | 52 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Lowestoft | 0.2 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
| South West Norfolk | 1.5 MW | 69 MW | not visible |
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich next door has 177 MW waiting, more than Waveney Valley's 59 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.