CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Hamble Valley
Hamble Valley has 6.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,337 homes.
Ranks 247 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamble Lane Battery Energy StorageBalanced Grid Solutions | Battery | 6 MW | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref F/19/85302 |
| ATS, Sopwith Way - Ground Mounted Solar Photovoltaic ArraysNATS | Solar | 3.3 MW1,200 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/23/1267/FP |
| CooperVision, Ensign Way - Solar PanelsYlem Energy Limited | Solar | 1.4 MW500 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PN/24/97950 |
| Concorde Way, Segensworth - Solar PanelsSolar Advanced Systems T/A SAS Energy | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/01583/PNSOL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamble Valley | 6.5 MW | 18 MW | not visible |
| Gosport | 1.1 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
| Fareham and Waterlooville | 11 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| Southampton Itchen | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Eastleigh | 29 MW | 6.3 MW | not visible |
| Winchester | 19 MW | 58 MW | not visible |
Eastleigh next door has 29 MW waiting, more than Hamble Valley's 6.5 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.