CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Cambridge
Cambridge has 1.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,570 homes.
Ranks 378 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Bedes Inter-Church SchoolSolar Options for Schools | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 19/0136/C14P14 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| South Cambridgeshire | 27 MW | 251 MW | not visible |
| St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire | 52 MW | 10 MW | not visible |
| Ely and East Cambridgeshire | 145 MW | 257 MW | not visible |
Ely and East Cambridgeshire next door has 145 MW waiting, more than Cambridge's 1.5 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.