Renewable energy projects in England

England has 8,828 solar, onshore wind or battery projects of 150 kW or more in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (July 2026 extract): 913 awaiting a decision, 4,854 approved but not running and 1,642 operational. 17% of 7,635 decided applications were refused.

Data: REPD July 2026 extract · calculated 7 November 2026 · Methodology and sources

8,828projects

913awaiting a decision

4,854approved, not running

17%of decisions refused

Councils in England

Council	Projects	Pending	Approved	Operational	Refused
Adur	5	0	4	0	—
Amber Valley	24	5	14	0	30%
Arun	12	0	4	8	0%
Ashfield	21	2	10	1	21%
Ashford	35	3	21	5	27%
Babergh	14	1	8	1	27%
Barking and Dagenham	15	1	11	2	0%
Barnet	9	0	9	0	—
Barnsley	29	3	12	10	8%
Basildon	30	4	14	8	10%
Basingstoke and Deane	36	4	20	7	27%
Bassetlaw	56	12	22	13	12%
Bath and North East Somerset	20	1	13	2	26%
Bedford	48	3	27	7	34%
Bexley	13	1	9	2	—
Birmingham	57	7	49	0	2%
Blaby	26	3	18	4	0%
Blackburn with Darwen	10	0	7	1	20%
Blackpool	9	0	7	0	—
Bolsover	20	1	9	5	20%
Bolton	25	3	16	3	18%
Boston	18	2	9	6	5%
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	29	4	14	7	20%
Bracknell Forest	6	1	5	0	—
Bradford	41	2	35	1	5%
Braintree	42	5	24	9	9%
Breckland	48	7	20	13	18%
Brent	35	1	33	0	13%
Brentwood	10	0	5	3	—
Brighton and Hove	5	0	4	1	—
Bristol	39	4	21	12	0%
Broadland	28	3	15	5	32%
Bromley	10	1	9	0	—
Bromsgrove	7	1	5	1	—
Broxbourne	4	0	2	0	—
Broxtowe	9	4	4	1	—
Buckinghamshire	101	17	44	18	24%
Burnley	16	2	5	2	41%
Bury	5	0	4	1	—
Calderdale	20	0	11	4	17%
Cambridge	9	2	7	0	—
Camden	3	0	2	0	—
Cannock Chase	4	1	0	0	—
Canterbury	31	2	18	5	8%
Castle Point	4	1	3	0	—
Central Bedfordshire	79	7	34	20	14%
Charnwood	34	3	19	5	13%
Chelmsford	16	1	13	0	33%
Cheltenham	6	0	6	0	—
Cherwell	53	7	32	11	14%
Cheshire East	44	2	29	6	10%
Cheshire West and Chester	67	13	42	7	11%
Chesterfield	16	1	10	5	0%
Chichester	26	2	13	9	16%
Chorley	12	3	5	2	—
City of London	3	0	3	0	—
Colchester	28	5	10	11	8%
Cornwall	249	16	79	105	22%
Cotswold	25	2	9	10	10%
County Durham	112	17	45	24	25%
Coventry	29	4	21	1	9%
Crawley	12	1	9	1	0%
Croydon	5	1	4	0	—
Cumberland	109	11	35	30	33%
Dacorum	16	1	12	2	12%
Darlington	28	0	18	5	5%
Dartford	23	1	14	2	6%
Derby	21	4	15	1	0%
Derbyshire Dales	25	1	8	8	23%
Doncaster	55	9	33	9	7%
Dorset	138	5	60	46	18%
Dover	34	3	14	8	26%
Dudley	20	1	17	1	15%
Ealing	10	1	8	0	—
East Cambridgeshire	37	2	17	15	3%
East Devon	60	5	24	15	31%
East Hampshire	26	6	10	7	21%
East Hertfordshire	30	7	14	2	35%
East Lindsey	54	3	20	17	22%
East Riding of Yorkshire	162	11	97	29	18%
East Staffordshire	27	4	10	9	5%
East Suffolk	70	10	31	15	18%
Eastbourne	11	2	7	2	—
Eastleigh	21	2	15	2	0%
Elmbridge	11	2	6	3	—
Enfield	19	3	14	1	6%
Epping Forest	11	0	8	1	30%
Epsom and Ewell	4	0	4	0	—
Erewash	9	1	6	1	—
Exeter	19	2	16	0	6%
Fareham	11	0	8	2	—
Fenland	58	3	18	23	20%
Folkestone and Hythe	12	2	5	4	—
Forest of Dean	34	3	8	14	29%
Fylde	25	6	6	9	16%
Gateshead	26	2	20	1	4%
Gedling	12	0	6	3	9%
Gloucester	22	1	18	1	5%
Gosport	5	0	5	0	—
Gravesham	4	2	2	0	—
Great Yarmouth	19	0	10	3	12%
Greenwich	17	1	8	2	40%
Guildford	9	3	6	0	—
Hackney	3	0	2	1	—
Halton	13	1	8	2	8%
Hammersmith and Fulham	8	2	5	0	—
Harborough	26	3	11	5	25%
Haringey	2	1	1	0	—
Harlow	13	0	12	0	8%
Harrow	4	0	2	0	—
Hart	19	1	12	2	28%
Hartlepool	26	2	13	4	6%
Hastings	5	1	3	0	—
Havant	3	1	2	0	—
Havering	14	1	7	4	38%
Herefordshire	37	1	19	6	17%
Hertsmere	20	2	10	3	25%
High Peak	15	1	10	2	7%
Hillingdon	22	1	16	1	6%
Hinckley and Bosworth	32	1	16	12	7%
Horsham	29	4	12	9	17%
Hounslow	22	1	17	3	14%
Huntingdonshire	51	3	26	18	15%
Hyndburn	18	2	14	2	6%
Ipswich	16	1	14	1	0%
Isle of Wight	25	2	7	11	20%
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0	—
Islington	1	0	1	0	—
Kensington and Chelsea	2	0	2	0	—
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	62	3	37	13	18%
Kingston upon Hull	34	2	26	3	0%
Kingston upon Thames	5	0	2	1	—
Kirklees	28	1	23	0	8%
Knowsley	22	4	14	1	25%
Lambeth	3	1	2	0	—
Lancaster	27	0	17	7	17%
Leeds	74	5	61	5	10%
Leicester	20	3	15	1	0%
Lewes	7	1	4	1	—
Lewisham	2	0	2	0	—
Lichfield	17	3	9	2	15%
Lincoln	4	0	4	0	—
Liverpool	32	4	23	3	0%
Luton	9	0	8	0	—
Maidstone	26	5	13	2	29%
Maldon	18	1	7	5	55%
Malvern Hills	18	4	5	2	50%
Manchester	54	3	40	5	8%
Mansfield	13	0	7	4	20%
Medway	19	0	14	1	17%
Melton	25	7	8	4	11%
Merton	6	1	4	0	—
Mid Devon	43	3	14	15	33%
Mid Suffolk	39	4	25	4	15%
Mid Sussex	15	1	7	4	14%
Middlesbrough	15	0	9	1	29%
Milton Keynes	93	5	57	13	13%
Mole Valley	11	2	5	1	—
New Forest	31	2	11	8	27%
Newark and Sherwood	48	6	21	13	39%
Newcastle upon Tyne	51	3	47	0	2%
Newcastle-under-Lyme	18	1	12	4	0%
Newham	19	3	14	1	6%
North Devon	43	1	12	18	24%
North East Derbyshire	33	2	15	7	17%
North East Lincolnshire	50	6	31	5	5%
North Hertfordshire	23	2	11	3	29%
North Kesteven	44	8	26	4	9%
North Lincolnshire	60	12	32	6	32%
North Norfolk	39	0	19	14	11%
North Northamptonshire	97	28	36	14	16%
North Somerset	57	8	33	8	14%
North Tyneside	19	2	14	1	0%
North Warwickshire	33	3	26	2	9%
North West Leicestershire	44	3	20	14	5%
North Yorkshire	211	35	124	27	17%
Northumberland	95	13	41	19	38%
Norwich	8	0	7	1	—
Nottingham	24	1	18	4	5%
Nuneaton and Bedworth	14	4	8	0	—
Oadby and Wigston	4	0	3	1	—
Oldham	19	1	17	0	11%
Oxford	12	1	9	2	—
Pendle	7	0	7	0	—
Peterborough	43	0	28	2	17%
Plymouth	34	2	24	2	0%
Portsmouth	26	3	21	1	8%
Preston	10	0	7	3	0%
Reading	13	2	10	0	0%
Redbridge	11	2	9	0	—
Redcar and Cleveland	23	2	13	2	6%
Redditch	13	2	7	2	—
Reigate and Banstead	13	1	9	0	20%
Ribble Valley	7	0	3	1	—
Richmond upon Thames	5	0	4	0	—
Rochdale	25	2	17	1	15%
Rochford	13	1	6	3	25%
Rossendale	9	0	2	3	—
Rother	17	4	10	1	27%
Rotherham	47	15	24	5	6%
Rugby	30	3	19	2	12%
Runnymede	8	2	4	1	—
Rushcliffe	41	1	29	7	16%
Rushmoor	7	0	5	1	—
Rutland	15	1	8	3	9%
Salford	13	1	11	0	9%
Sandwell	37	2	29	3	6%
Sefton	42	2	34	3	10%
Sevenoaks	15	2	7	0	36%
Sheffield	37	5	24	1	14%
Shropshire	100	8	55	25	22%
Slough	13	0	10	0	15%
Solihull	35	9	22	0	27%
Somerset	202	12	65	79	25%
South Cambridgeshire	53	6	21	14	21%
South Derbyshire	33	7	14	6	19%
South Gloucestershire	89	9	58	16	9%
South Hams	43	3	11	17	17%
South Holland	51	3	33	8	25%
South Kesteven	44	3	23	6	35%
South Norfolk	60	11	33	7	16%
South Oxfordshire	37	4	20	6	27%
South Ribble	16	3	9	2	0%
South Staffordshire	47	2	35	4	16%
South Tyneside	17	4	11	1	8%
Southampton	15	0	13	0	12%
Southend-on-Sea	6	1	5	0	—
Southwark	7	1	6	0	—
Spelthorne	6	1	5	0	—
St Albans	15	2	10	1	0%
St. Helens	19	0	15	1	6%
Stafford	29	7	18	0	25%
Staffordshire Moorlands	25	6	14	3	32%
Stevenage	12	1	10	1	0%
Stockport	24	2	19	2	5%
Stockton-on-Tees	32	2	24	4	0%
Stoke-on-Trent	22	1	19	1	10%
Stratford-on-Avon	49	3	26	10	18%
Stroud	41	2	17	9	24%
Sunderland	44	3	31	6	8%
Surrey Heath	10	4	2	0	—
Sutton	4	1	3	0	—
Swale	46	2	27	15	12%
Swindon	43	1	26	15	2%
Tameside	14	1	11	2	0%
Tamworth	6	1	4	0	—
Tandridge	10	2	6	0	—
Teignbridge	21	5	8	2	36%
Telford and Wrekin	42	3	28	6	18%
Tendring	30	2	12	9	38%
Test Valley	54	1	28	16	16%
Tewkesbury	38	5	21	5	16%
Thanet	26	1	18	6	7%
Three Rivers	6	2	3	0	—
Thurrock	31	1	17	8	11%
Tonbridge and Malling	17	5	7	4	8%
Torbay	7	1	4	1	—
Torridge	57	6	12	26	27%
Tower Hamlets	7	2	3	1	—
Trafford	30	2	23	1	21%
Tunbridge Wells	29	2	15	5	28%
Uttlesford	28	2	12	7	31%
Vale of White Horse	43	7	17	10	16%
Wakefield	54	9	35	5	16%
Walsall	19	0	15	2	24%
Waltham Forest	3	1	1	0	—
Wandsworth	4	0	3	0	—
Warrington	36	0	25	2	17%
Warwick	29	2	16	4	40%
Watford	3	0	2	1	—
Waverley	11	3	6	1	—
Wealden	43	7	25	9	11%
Welwyn Hatfield	14	1	13	0	13%
West Berkshire	33	1	23	6	21%
West Devon	19	1	7	7	39%
West Lancashire	26	3	13	3	25%
West Lindsey	48	7	23	6	27%
West Northamptonshire	108	19	48	25	26%
West Oxfordshire	36	6	19	4	32%
West Suffolk	46	8	27	8	13%
Westminster	8	1	5	0	—
Westmorland and Furness	84	7	25	17	44%
Wigan	22	5	10	3	0%
Wiltshire	167	20	77	49	13%
Winchester	41	5	20	8	11%
Windsor and Maidenhead	15	2	10	2	8%
Wirral	14	0	10	1	0%
Woking	8	0	8	0	—
Wokingham	15	0	12	2	7%
Wolverhampton	18	3	12	1	7%
Worcester	8	3	4	1	—
Worthing	5	0	4	0	—
Wychavon	61	5	31	15	6%
Wyre	18	1	9	5	21%
Wyre Forest	6	0	5	0	—
York	39	4	31	2	11%

Refused: share of decided applications refused by the council (shown from 10 decisions).

Largest applications awaiting a decision

Project	Type	MW	Submitted	Record updated	Council
Energy Park Facility & Battery Storagebattery storage	battery storage	1,000	Aug 2025	Sep 2025	Harborough
Tesside GigaParkbattery storage	battery storage	1,000	May 2026	Jun 2026	Redcar and Cleveland
Hawthorn Pit Green Energy Parkbattery storage	battery storage	1,000	Aug 2025	Oct 2025	County Durham
Hill Rise, Colebybattery storage	battery storage	1,000	May 2025	Jun 2025	North Kesteven
Drakelowbattery storage	battery storage	1,000	Dec 2024	Feb 2025	South Derbyshire
Canners Lane Energy Park, High Dikebattery storage	battery storage	1,000	Sep 2025	Oct 2025	South Kesteven
Old Rides Farm, Leysdown Roadbattery storage	battery storage	1,000	Aug 2025	Oct 2025	Swale
Mowbray Battery Energy Storage Stationbattery storage	battery storage	1,000	Dec 2024	Feb 2025	North Yorkshire
Botley West Solar Projectsolar farm	solar farm	840	Nov 2024	Dec 2024	West Oxfordshire
Sweetbriar Farmbattery storage	battery storage	800	Jul 2025	Aug 2025	North Lincolnshire
The Tween Bridge Solar Farmsolar farm	solar farm	800	Aug 2025	Oct 2025	Doncaster
The Park Farm, Birds Cornerbattery storage	battery storage	800	Jun 2025	Aug 2025	Breckland
Great North Road Solar Parksolar farm	solar farm	800	Jun 2025	Oct 2025	Newark and Sherwood
Whitestone Solar Farmsolar farm	solar farm	750	Jul 2026	Jul 2026	Rotherham
Green Hill Solar Farm & Battery Storagebattery storage	battery storage	600	Jun 2025	Aug 2025	North Northamptonshire
Green Hill Solar Farm & Battery Storagesolar farm	solar farm	600	Jun 2025	Aug 2025	North Northamptonshire
Beacon Fen Energy Parkbattery storage	battery storage	600	Apr 2025	Oct 2025	North Kesteven
Chads Farm - Photovoltaic Arrays & Battery Storagebattery storage	battery storage	522	Feb 2022 may be out of date	Mar 2022	Cheshire West and Chester
Red House Farm, Old Norwich Roadbattery storage	battery storage	520	Jun 2025	Aug 2025	Mid Suffolk
East Pye Solar Farmsolar farm	solar farm	500	Apr 2026	May 2026	South Norfolk