Gainsborough
Gainsborough has 583 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 212,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,345 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gate Burton - Solar & Energy Storage Park | Solar Photovoltaics | 193,000 homes | 531.0 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
| The Old Airfield Solar Photovoltaic Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2021-05 | 5.2 yrs |
| A Poucher & Sons, Lodge Farm - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.8 MW | 2023-12 | 2.7 yrs |
| Gainsborough Educational Village, Sweyn Lane - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2023-12 | 2.6 yrs |
| David Lloyd Leisure, Burton Waters - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-08 | 2.9 yrs |
| Ping Europe Limited, Corringham Road - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| River Cottage, Scampton - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-07 | 4.0 yrs |
| Harvest Pet Products Limited - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-08 | 4.0 yrs |
Plus 10 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barfield Lane, Reepham - Battery Energy Storage System | 53 MW | in planning | could supply ≈186,000 homes |
| West Burton Solar Project | 20 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈70,000 homes |
| Leverton Farm - Energy Barn | 10 MW | could supply ≈35,000 homes | |
| Marton Sewage Works, High Street - Battery Energy Storage | 10 MW | in planning | could supply ≈35,000 homes |
What this page does not show
Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.
Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.
Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →
What has Sir Edward Leigh said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →