Greenwich and Woolwich
Greenwich and Woolwich has 4.5 MW of clean power (mostly onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,200 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 49,548 homes.
Ranks 269 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| The O2 Arena - Wind turbinesWaterfront Limited Partnership | Onshore wind | 3 MW2,600 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/2229/F |
| Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Stadium Road - Solar PanelsPhoenix Renewables Limited | Solar | 1.6 MW600 homes | Refused by Greenwich Council in 2025Who can move it: Greenwich Council · planning ref 25/3352/PN3 |
| Alcatel, Telegraph House - Solar PanelsPrivate Developer | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Refused by Greenwich Council in 2025Who can move it: Greenwich Council · planning ref 25/3119/PN3 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich and Woolwich | 4.5 MW | 1 MW | not visible |
| Eltham and Chislehurst | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Lewisham North | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Erith and Thamesmead | 1.6 MW | 4.6 MW | not visible |
Greenwich and Woolwich 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
- 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.