Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,544 homes.
Ranks 366 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admiralty Road - Battery Energy Storage FacilityAbbey Power Solution Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 06/24/0123/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Yarmouth | 1.6 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Lowestoft | 0.2 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
| South Norfolk | 104 MW | 37 MW | not visible |
| Broadland and Fakenham | 46 MW | 100 MW | not visible |
| North Norfolk | 9.7 MW | 90 MW | not visible |
South Norfolk next door has 104 MW waiting, more than Great Yarmouth'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.