CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
East Wiltshire
East Wiltshire has 2.3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,813 homes.
Ranks 327 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant Farm - Solar FarmBelltown Power Limited | Solar | 35 MW13,000 homes | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Swindon Council · planning ref S/25/0666 |
| Building ONEScience Museum Group | Solar | 1.2 MW400 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref S/19/0229 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Wiltshire | 2.3 MW | 63 MW | not visible |
| Salisbury | 52 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| South West Wiltshire | 74 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| Melksham and Devizes | 51 MW | 133 MW | not visible |
| Chippenham | 103 MW | 101 MW | not visible |
| North West Hampshire | 4.7 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
Chippenham next door has 103 MW waiting, more than East Wiltshire's 2.3 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.