CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Epping Forest
Epping Forest has 2 MW of renewables running, enough for 700 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,311 homes.
Ranks 469 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upland Road - 49.9 Megawatt Solar PanelsLow Carbon Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Refused by Epping Forest Council in 2026Who can move it: Epping Forest Council · planning ref EPF/1428/25 |
| West Essex Golf Club, Bury Road - Solar FarmWest Essex GC Green Energy Limited | Solar | 11 MW3,900 homes | Refused by Epping Forest Council in 2025Who can move it: the planning appeal inspector · planning ref EPF/2596/23 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epping Forest | 0.6 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Brentwood and Ongar | 1 MW | 50 MW | not visible |
| Ilford North | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Chingford and Woodford Green | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Enfield North | 3.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Broxbourne | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Enfield North next door has 3.7 MW waiting, more than Epping Forest's 0.6 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.