CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Brentwood and Ongar
Brentwood and Ongar has 1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,859 homes.
Ranks 424 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brentwood nergy Storage SystemAnesco Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/01800/FUL |
| Thrift Solar Farm and BESSIB Vogt UK Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EPF/1216/25 |
| Thrift Solar Farm and BESSIB Vogt UK 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 EPF/1216/25 |
| Nickerlands Solar Farm - Solar FarmAR Toot Hill Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EPF/1546/24 |
| Billericay Solar Farm - Solar FarmConrad Energy | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01263/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brentwood and Ongar | 1 MW | 50 MW | not visible |
| South Basildon and East Thurrock | 50 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Hornchurch and Upminster | 50 MW | 2.6 MW | not visible |
| Romford | 0.8 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| Basildon and Billericay | 7.7 MW | 36 MW | not visible |
| Maldon | 139 MW | 63 MW | not visible |
Maldon next door has 139 MW waiting, more than Brentwood and Ongar's 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.