CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Aylesbury
Aylesbury has 52 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 19,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,191 homes.
Ranks 119 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury Farm - Solar FarmInterguide Group Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/02775/APP |
| Ledburn, Mentmore - Solar FarmVattenfall Wind Power Limited (Vattenfall) | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02313/APP |
| Straws Hadley Solar FarmQair UK | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01094/APP |
| Hale Solar FarmElgin Energy | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Waiting 6.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Buckinghamshire Council · planning ref 20/00779/APP |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aylesbury | 52 MW | 44 MW | not visible |
| Mid Buckinghamshire | 136 MW | 7.8 MW | not visible |
| Buckingham and Bletchley | 130 MW | 60 MW | not visible |
| Harpenden and Berkhamsted | 0.3 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| Luton South and South Bedfordshire | 4.5 MW | 18 MW | not visible |
| Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard | 76 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
Mid Buckinghamshire next door has 136 MW waiting, more than Aylesbury's 52 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.