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East Worthing and Shoreham

MP: Tom Rutland (Labour) England Data to July 2026

East Worthing and Shoreham has 1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 400 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,533 homes.

Ranks 420 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Halewick Lane, Sompting - Battery-based Energy Storage FacilityPublic Power Solutions (PPS) / West Sussex County Council Battery 50 MW Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref SDNP/18/06402/FUL

Compared with its neighbours

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
East Worthing and Shoreham 1 MW0 MWnot visible
Worthing West 0.5 MW0 MWnot visible
Arundel and South Downs 0 MW21 MWnot visible
Hove and Portslade 0 MW1.8 MWnot visible

East Worthing and Shoreham has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.

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
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