Camborne and Redruth
Camborne and Redruth has 35 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 13,000 homes. 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,696 homes.
Ranks 167 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Coach House, Gwinear Lane - Speedwell Solar FarmStatKraft | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PA23/09696 |
| Copper Bottom Solar Farm Ground-Mounted Solar PV ArrayAura Power Storage Solutions | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PA22/06139 |
| Roddas, The Creamery - Solar Photovoltaic ArrayRoddas | Solar | 2.6 MW1,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PA23/00424 |
| Loggans Roundabout, Loggans Road - Solar FarmBauer Group | Solar | 2.5 MW900 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PA24/02723 |
| Treliever Cross Research Fields, Longdowns - Wind TurbineUniversity of Exeter | Onshore wind | 1 MW900 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PA24/09072 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camborne and Redruth | 35 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| St Ives | 1.1 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| Truro and Falmouth | 80 MW | 99 MW | not visible |
Truro and Falmouth next door has 80 MW waiting, more than Camborne and Redruth's 35 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.