CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Amber Valley
Amber Valley has 28 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 10,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,413 homes.
Ranks 176 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hall Farm Solar FarmKronos Solar | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Refused by Amber Valley Council in 2022Who can move it: Amber Valley Council · planning ref AVA/2020/1224 |
| Heanor Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemDowning Energy Development Company Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref AVA/2024/0059 |
| Derby Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemStarlight Energy | Battery | 40 MW | Waiting 16 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Amber Valley Council · planning ref AVA/2024/0877 |
| Derby Road - Solar PanelsStarlight Energy | Solar | 38 MW14,000 homes | Waiting 16 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Amber Valley Council · planning ref AVA/2024/0877 |
| Meadow Lane Solar FarmGresham House / Anesco Limited | Solar | 20 MW7,100 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref AVA/2021/0313 |
Plus 3 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amber Valley | 28 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Erewash | 0.4 MW | 0.6 MW | not visible |
| Broxtowe | 0 MW | 2.5 MW | not visible |
| Ashfield | 7.8 MW | 4.7 MW | not visible |
| Mid Derbyshire | 1.2 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Derbyshire Dales | 16 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
Amber Valley has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.