CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Gloucester
Gloucester has 7.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.5m across the constituency's 48,790 homes.
Ranks 242 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sudmeadow Road, Hempsted - Battery Energy Storage SystemGreenfield Energy Developments Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00732/FUL |
| Unilever UK, Corinium Avenue - Solar PanelsUnilever UK | Solar | 3.5 MW1,300 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00190/PRIOR |
| Hempsted Lane - Solar ArrayEnovert South Limited | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00365/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gloucester | 7.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| North Cotswolds | 55 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Tewkesbury | 66 MW | 41 MW | not visible |
| Forest of Dean | 64 MW | 98 MW | not visible |
Tewkesbury next door has 66 MW waiting, more than Gloucester's 7.2 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.