CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Epsom and Ewell
Epsom and Ewell has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,644 homes.
Ranks 522 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnett Wood Lane - Battery StorageBluestone Energy | Battery | 98 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/02168/FUL |
| Rushett Lane - Battery Storage SystemEnso Energy | Battery | 30 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00756/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epsom and Ewell | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Dorking and Horley | 0.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Reigate | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Runnymede and Weybridge | 0.6 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Kingston and Surbiton | 0.2 MW | 6.3 MW | not visible |
| Sutton and Cheam | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Sutton and Cheam next door has 0.7 MW waiting, more than Epsom and Ewell's 0.3 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.