CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Chippenham
Chippenham has 103 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 38,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,998 homes.
Ranks 64 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brockleaze, Neston Park Estate - Battery Energy StorageGrenergy Renewables UK Limited | Battery | 450 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wiltshire Council · planning ref PL/2025/05552 |
| Wick Farm Melksham SubstationJBM Solar Projects | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20/06840/FUL |
| Forest Gate - Solar Farm & Battery StorageEden Renewables | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2021/06112 |
| Forest Gate - Solar Farm & Battery StorageEden Renewables | Battery | 40 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2021/06112 |
| Swindon Energy Plant (Park Grounds)Advanced Biofuel Solutions (formerly Crapper and Sons Landfill) | Advanced Conversion Technologies | 6 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 17/03547/WCM |
| Sands Farm Quarry, Low Lane - Solar PanelsValencia Waster Management Limited | Solar | 6 MW2,200 homes | Waiting 2.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wiltshire Council · planning ref PL/2024/01599 |
Plus 4 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chippenham | 103 MW | 101 MW | not visible |
| Melksham and Devizes | 51 MW | 133 MW | not visible |
| East Wiltshire | 2.3 MW | 63 MW | not visible |
| Swindon South | 2.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| South Cotswolds | 194 MW | 224 MW | not visible |
South Cotswolds next door has 194 MW waiting, more than Chippenham's 103 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.