CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bedford
Bedford has 7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,851 homes.
Ranks 243 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elstow Landfill SiteBedford Borough Council | Solar | 5.5 MW2,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20/01987/FULWM |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford | 7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Mid Bedfordshire | 43 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| North Bedfordshire | 74 MW | 97 MW | not visible |
North Bedfordshire next door has 74 MW waiting, more than Bedford's 7 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 1 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.