CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Gillingham and Rainham
Gillingham and Rainham has 2.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,768 homes.
Ranks 310 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phinia, Courteney Road - Solar PanelsPhinia Delphi UK Limited | Solar | 1.8 MW700 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref MC/23/2763 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gillingham and Rainham | 2.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Faversham and Mid Kent | 1.5 MW | 407 MW | not visible |
| Chatham and Aylesford | 1 MW | 4.5 MW | not visible |
| Sittingbourne and Sheppey | 64 MW | 66 MW | not visible |
| Rochester and Strood | 1.7 MW | 12 MW | not visible |
Sittingbourne and Sheppey next door has 64 MW waiting, more than Gillingham and Rainham's 2.7 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.