CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Basingstoke
Basingstoke has 2.1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,583 homes.
Ranks 338 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hook Lane, MalshangerNextpower SPV 18 Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/03012/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basingstoke | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Winchester | 19 MW | 58 MW | not visible |
| East Hampshire | 78 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| North West Hampshire | 4.7 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| North East Hampshire | 168 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
North East Hampshire next door has 168 MW waiting, more than Basingstoke's 2.1 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
- 2 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.