CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Basildon and Billericay
Basildon and Billericay has 7.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,534 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2023; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
Ranks 237 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whites Farm - Battery StorageAnglo Renewables Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Refused by Basildon Council in 2023Who can move it: Basildon Council · planning ref 22/01108/FULL |
| Barleylands Solar FarmEnso Energy Limited | Solar | 17 MW6,200 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01468/FULL |
| Great Cowbridge Grange Farm, London Road - Solar FarmConrad Energy (Developments) Limited | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01262/FULL |
| Outwood Farm (Phase 2)Wirsol | Solar | 7 MW2,500 homes | Approved 12 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 14/00948/FULL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basildon and Billericay | 7.7 MW | 36 MW | not visible |
| South Basildon and East Thurrock | 50 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Rayleigh and Wickford | 80 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Brentwood and Ongar | 1 MW | 50 MW | not visible |
| Maldon | 139 MW | 63 MW | not visible |
Maldon next door has 139 MW waiting, more than Basildon and Billericay's 7.7 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.