CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Exmouth and Exeter East
Exmouth and Exeter East has 150 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 55,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,783 homes.
Ranks 34 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saundercroft Farm - Battery Energy Storage SystemExeter Storage Limited (Statera Energy) | Battery | 290 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/0962/MFUL |
| Exeter Substation, Broadclyst - Battery Energy StorageIsland Green Power | Battery | 125 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/1150/MFUL |
| National Grid Substation - Battery Energy Storage SystemPenso Power (BW ESS) | Battery | 100 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/0063/MFUL |
| Blackhill Quarry, Woodbury - Battery Energy Storage FacilityClinton Devon Estates | Battery | 60 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/2546/MFUL |
| Saundercroft Road, Broadclyst - Battery Energy Storage SystemPivoted Power Llp | Battery | 57 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/2664/MFUL |
| Higher Bagmore Farm, Ebford Lane -Battery Energy Storage SystemEnviromena | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Devon Council · planning ref 25/1338/MFUL |
| Rutton Farm, Whimple - Horton Solar FarmAura Power Developments Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/0783/MFUL |
| Paytherden Solar Farm (Peradon)Lightrock Power Limited | Solar | 49 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/3120/MFUL |
| Ford Oaks Solar & Green Infrastructure FacilityLow Carbon Alliance / Taiyo Power & Storage | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/0990/MFUL |
| Higher Hawkerland Farm, Sidmouth Road - Solar FarmSpring Dev 09 Limited | Solar | 18 MW6,500 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/2409/MFUL |
| Kerswell Barton Farm, Broadclyst - Solar PanelsMJ Quinn Integrated Services Limited | Solar | 16 MW5,900 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/0467/MFUL |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exmouth and Exeter East | 150 MW | 50 MW | not visible |
| Exeter | 2.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Honiton and Sidmouth | 39 MW | 77 MW | not visible |
| Central Devon | 11 MW | 41 MW | not visible |
Exmouth and Exeter East 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
- 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
- 3 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.