No.11 OF 650 · APPROVED, NOT BUILT MP: Alicia Kearns (Conservative) England

Rutland and Stamford

Rutland and Stamford has 379 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 138,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,908 homes.

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No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency, so no switch-off payments show here in national data. Smaller wind farms on the local grid can still be paid to switch off — invisibly. The £ figure for this seat is a floor, not a zero.

how we worked this out

379 MW

of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 138,000 homes — 3 times every household in this constituency. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 16.4× the renewable capacity actually running here.

6 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out

£3.7m

is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 39,908 households in a year between them — £92 each, about 51 days of one home's electricity.

The £92 per household is a national figure — identical in every GB seat. Only the seat total varies, with the number of households · NESO · how we worked this out

The waiting list

6 of 6 waiting projects · years since approval

Ranksborough Farm 28 MW

4.5 YRS

Morrison - Roof mounted solar panels 1 MW

4.2 YRS

Openfield, Colsterworth - Solar PV System 0 MW

4.0 YRS

Cherryholt Road - Solar Panels 0 MW

3.9 YRS

Rutland Garden Centre, Ashwell Road - Solar 0 MW

3.3 YRS

Mallard Pass Solar Farm 350 MW

2.1 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026

Site	Technology	Enough for	Capacity	Approved	Waiting
Mallard Pass Solar Farm	Solar Photovoltaics	127,000 homes	350.0 MW	2024-07	2.1 yrs
Ranksborough Farm	Solar Photovoltaics	10,000 homes	28.0 MW	2022-01	4.5 yrs
Morrison - Roof mounted solar panels	Solar Photovoltaics	200 homes	0.7 MW	2022-06	4.2 yrs
Openfield, Colsterworth - Solar PV System	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.4 MW	2022-08	4.0 yrs
Rutland Garden Centre, Ashwell Road - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.2 MW	2023-04	3.3 yrs
Cherryholt Road - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.2 MW	2022-08	3.9 yrs

Plus 5 more approved within the last two years.

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 →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Alicia Kearns said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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