CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bexhill and Battle
Bexhill and Battle has 1.9 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,145 homes.
Ranks 350 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moor Hall Farm, Moor Hall Drive - Battery Energy Storage FacilityBalance Power Projects Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref WD/2024/2957/MAJ |
| Eastlands Farm, Catsfield - Catsfield Battery Energy Storage FacilityMasdar Arlington Energy | Battery | 240 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RR/2024/1535/P |
| Pashley Farm, Ninfield Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemElgin Energy Esco Limited | Battery | 130 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wealden Council · planning ref WD/2025/0500/MAJ |
| Catsfield Christmas Tree Farm, The Stream - Battery Energy Storage SystemElgin Energy Esco Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rother Council · planning ref RR/2025/1284/P |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bexhill and Battle | 1.9 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Eastbourne | 0.7 MW | 1.3 MW | not visible |
| Lewes | 26 MW | 42 MW | not visible |
| Hastings and Rye | 1.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sussex Weald | 1.1 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Tunbridge Wells | 54 MW | 31 MW | not visible |
Tunbridge Wells next door has 54 MW waiting, more than Bexhill and Battle's 1.9 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.