Erith and Thamesmead
Erith and Thamesmead has 1.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £4.6m across the constituency's 49,618 homes.
Ranks 362 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Energy Park (REP)Cory Riverside Energy | EfW Incineration | 80 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref EN010093 |
| Riverside Energy ParkCory Riverside Energy | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010093 |
| Riverside Energy Park (REP)Cory Riverside Energy | Anaerobic Digestion | 19 MW | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010093 |
| Riverside Resource Recovery Facility Battery StorageRiverside Resource Recovery Limited | Battery | 2.5 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20/03208/FUL |
| Riverside Energy Park (REP)Cory Riverside Energy | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010093 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erith and Thamesmead | 1.6 MW | 4.6 MW | not visible |
| Eltham and Chislehurst | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Greenwich and Woolwich | 4.5 MW | 1 MW | not visible |
| Old Bexley and Sidcup | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bexleyheath and Crayford | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Greenwich and Woolwich next door has 4.5 MW waiting, more than Erith and Thamesmead's 1.6 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.