CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
East Grinstead and Uckfield
East Grinstead and Uckfield has 6.1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,200 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,695 homes.
Ranks 250 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uckfield Solar Electric ForecourtGridserve Sustainable Energy | Solar | 5.5 MW2,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref WD/2020/1244/MAJ |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Grinstead and Uckfield | 6.1 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
| Lewes | 26 MW | 42 MW | not visible |
| Sussex Weald | 1.1 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Horsham | 51 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| Mid Sussex | 0.2 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Crawley | 1.4 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
Horsham next door has 51 MW waiting, more than East Grinstead and Uckfield's 6.1 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.