Dagenham and Rainham
Dagenham and Rainham has 8 MW of renewables running, enough for 6,900 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,588 homes.
Ranks 429 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dagenham and Rainham | 0.9 MW | 7.9 MW | not visible |
| Thurrock | 18 MW | 105 MW | not visible |
| Ilford South | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Barking | 3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Hornchurch and Upminster | 50 MW | 2.6 MW | not visible |
| Romford | 0.8 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
Hornchurch and Upminster next door has 50 MW waiting, more than Dagenham and Rainham's 0.9 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 1 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.