CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Canterbury
Canterbury has 1.4 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,275 homes.
Ranks 386 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Britton Court Farm, Hackington Road - Solar FarmRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Solar | 38 MW14,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref CA/24/02283 |
| Parker Steel, Vauxhall Industrial Road - Solar PanelsParker Tools | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref CA/24/01599 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canterbury | 1.4 MW | 17 MW | not visible |
| Weald of Kent | 51 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Ashford | 2.2 MW | 0.6 MW | not visible |
| Dover and Deal | 25 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Faversham and Mid Kent | 1.5 MW | 407 MW | not visible |
| Herne Bay and Sandwich | 2.2 MW | 129 MW | not visible |
Weald of Kent next door has 51 MW waiting, more than Canterbury's 1.4 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.