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Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,300 homes.
Ranks 506 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinstone Farm, Oxford Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemVoltwise Power Holdings Limited | Battery | 60 MW | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Buckinghamshire Council · planning ref PL/25/2201/FA |
| Salters Lane - Solar PanelsGrupotec Solar Uk 9 Limited | Solar | 42 MW15,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Durham Council · planning ref DM/25/01801/FPA |
| Gerrards Cross Sewage Treatment WorksPeak Gen Power | Battery | 20 MW | Waiting 5.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Buckinghamshire Council · planning ref PL/20/4234/FA |
| Coldmoorholme Lane Battery StorageEnvirotech Energy Solutions | Battery | 7.2 MW | Refused by Buckinghamshire Council in 2021Who can move it: Buckinghamshire Council · planning ref 20/08321/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaconsfield | 0.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Windsor | 0.7 MW | 4.8 MW | not visible |
| Maidenhead | 23 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| Hayes and Harlington | 1.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Slough | 1.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wycombe | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Maidenhead next door has 23 MW waiting, more than Beaconsfield's 0.4 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.