Central Devon
Central Devon has 11 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 4,100 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,745 homes.
Ranks 219 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Tawton Primary Substation - Battery StorageBalance Power Projects Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2094/21/FUL |
| Apple Tree CloseSun Farming | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Approved 10 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 15/02092/MAJ |
| Land at Martin FarmMurex Energy | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Approved 11 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 00715/2015 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Devon | 11 MW | 41 MW | not visible |
| South Devon | 2.7 MW | 54 MW | not visible |
| Newton Abbot | 21 MW | 18 MW | not visible |
| Exmouth and Exeter East | 150 MW | 50 MW | not visible |
| Exeter | 2.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Honiton and Sidmouth | 39 MW | 77 MW | not visible |
Exmouth and Exeter East next door has 150 MW waiting, more than Central Devon's 11 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.