CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bromley and Biggin Hill
Bromley and Biggin Hill 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 39,279 homes.
Ranks 550 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Layhams Road - Battery Storage FacilityPenso Power (BW ESS) | Battery | 250 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/04681/FULL1 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bromley and Biggin Hill | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| East Surrey | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Orpington | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Croydon East | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Beckenham and Penge | 1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Lewisham East | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
East Surrey next door has 11 MW waiting, more than Bromley and Biggin Hill's 0.2 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.