CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Braintree
Braintree has 51 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,166 homes.
Ranks 133 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Braintree Road, Cressing - Battery StoragePivot Power (EDF Renewables) | Battery | 57 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/02180/FUL |
| Cutbush Farm, Belchamp St Paul - Solar ArrayBritish Solar Renewables | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 23/01413/FUL |
| Felsted School Road - Solar Photovoltaic Farm & Battery storageClearstone Energy | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref UTT/22/0007/FUL |
| Surmer Hall, Church Walk - Solar Farm & Battery StorageBoultbee Brooks (Renewables Rowley Hill) Limited | Solar | 36 MW13,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02705/FUL |
| Surmer Hall, Church Walk - Solar Farm & Battery StorageBoultbee Brooks (Renewables Rowley Hill) Limited | Battery | 22 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02705/FUL |
| Slamseys Energy StorageGridserve Energy Storage | Battery | 10 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 17/01235/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Braintree | 51 MW | 70 MW | not visible |
| Witham | 24 MW | 193 MW | not visible |
| Harwich and North Essex | 21 MW | 68 MW | not visible |
| North West Essex | 623 MW | 68 MW | not visible |
| South Suffolk | 1 MW | 2.8 MW | not visible |
| South Cambridgeshire | 27 MW | 251 MW | not visible |
North West Essex next door has 623 MW waiting, more than Braintree's 51 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.