Wellingborough and Rushden
Wellingborough and Rushden has 1.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 400 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, £4.3m across the constituency's 47,040 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 393 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chelveston Renewable Energy ParkFederal Estates | Battery | 20 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 17/00784/FUL |
| Quarry, Ditchford Lane - Solar FarmNovus Renewable Services | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref NE/24/01235/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellingborough and Rushden | 1.2 MW | 81 MW | not visible |
| South Northamptonshire | 104 MW | 85 MW | not visible |
| Daventry | 130 MW | 77 MW | not visible |
| North Bedfordshire | 74 MW | 97 MW | not visible |
| Kettering | 49 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| Corby and East Northamptonshire | 52 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
Daventry next door has 130 MW waiting, more than Wellingborough and Rushden's 1.2 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.