Broxtowe
Broxtowe has 2 MW of renewables running, enough for 2,200 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,375 homes.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southfields Farm, Common Lane - Battery StorageToton Battery Storage Limited | Battery | 130 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00799/FUL |
| Moto Hospitality, Trowell Services Area North - Solar Farm & BatteryMoto Hospitality Limited | Solar | 16 MW5,900 homes | Waiting 17 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Broxtowe Council · planning ref 25/00147/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broxtowe | 0 MW | 2.5 MW | not visible |
| Rushcliffe | 163 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| Nottingham South | 6.7 MW | 2.2 MW | not visible |
| Erewash | 0.4 MW | 0.6 MW | not visible |
| Nottingham North and Kimberley | 17 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Ashfield | 7.8 MW | 4.7 MW | not visible |
Rushcliffe next door has 163 MW waiting, more than Broxtowe's 0 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.