Droitwich and Evesham
Droitwich and Evesham has 67 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 24,000 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,897 homes.
Ranks 100 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fibden Farm - Solar ArrayGrenergy Renewables | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Waiting 2.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wychavon Council · planning ref W/24/01088/FUL |
| Fibden Farm, Hampton Lovett - Solar ArrayGrenergy Renewables | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref W/24/01088/FUL |
| Mount Farm, Mount Pleasant - Solar FarmMount Farm Solar Limited | Solar | 35 MW13,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01085/FUL |
| Bishampton Solar FarmInfinis | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20/02071/FUL |
| Crossway Green, Ombersley - Solar PanelsTyler Hill Solar Limited | Solar | 18 MW6,500 homes | Waiting 2.8 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wychavon Council · planning ref W/23/01894/FUL |
| Pershore Lane, Tibberton - Battery Energy Storage SystemSirius Renewable Energy | Battery | 14 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref W/22/02717/FUL |
| Norchard FarmNorchard Solar Farm Limited | Solar | 8.8 MW3,200 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref W/23/01483/FUL |
Plus 5 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Droitwich and Evesham | 67 MW | 122 MW | not visible |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 134 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
| North Cotswolds | 55 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Tewkesbury | 66 MW | 41 MW | not visible |
| Redditch | 3.3 MW | 5.2 MW | not visible |
| West Worcestershire | 5.8 MW | 95 MW | not visible |
Stratford-on-Avon next door has 134 MW waiting, more than Droitwich and Evesham's 67 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.