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Coventry East
Coventry East has 1.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.3m across the constituency's 46,379 homes.
Ranks 372 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coventry National Grid Substation, Hawkesbury Hall - Battery StorageBluestone Energy | Battery | 98 MW | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Coventry Council · planning ref 41157 |
| Lentons Lane Solar FarmCoventry City Council | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Refused by Coventry Council in 2024Who can move it: Coventry Council · planning ref PL/2023/0001062/FULM |
| Lentons Lane, Aldermans Green - Solar PanelsEon UK Plc | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Refused by Coventry Council in 2026Who can move it: Coventry Council · planning ref R25/0883 |
| Lentons Lane - Solar PanelsEon UK Plc | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2025/0001922/FULM |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coventry East | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Coventry South | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Coventry North West | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| North Warwickshire and Bedworth | 80 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Rugby | 77 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
North Warwickshire and Bedworth next door has 80 MW waiting, more than Coventry East'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.