CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket has 52 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 19,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,175 homes.
Ranks 121 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firsfield Solar FarmEnray Power Limited | Solar | 47 MW17,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/22/0445/FUL |
| Bardwell Fields, Knox Lane - Solar FarmOpdenergy UK 23 Limited | Solar | 42 MW15,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: West Suffolk Council · planning ref DC/25/0980/FUL |
| Valley Farm, Hessett - Solar PanelsOpdenergy UK Limted | Solar | 42 MW15,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/25/02730 |
| Climax Molybdenum UK Limited, Needham Road - Solar PV PanelsClimax Molybdenum UK Ltd | Solar | 1.2 MW400 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/23/04966 |
| Skyliner Way - Solar Array3Ti Energy Hubs Limited | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/24/0099/P14JPA |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket | 52 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| South Suffolk | 1 MW | 2.8 MW | not visible |
| Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | 177 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| West Suffolk | 502 MW | 94 MW | not visible |
| Waveney Valley | 59 MW | 64 MW | not visible |
| South West Norfolk | 1.5 MW | 69 MW | not visible |
West Suffolk next door has 502 MW waiting, more than Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket's 52 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.