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Harlow

MP: Chris Vince (Labour (Co-op)) England Data to July 2026

Harlow has 56 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 20,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 45,079 homes.

Ranks 111 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
East End Solar FarmLow Carbon Solar Park 18 Solar 50 MW18,000 homes Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EPF/1974/22
Poundland Distribution Centre - Solar Photovoltaic SystemStandard Life Assurance Limited Solar 1.5 MW500 homes Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref HW/FUL/22/00243

Compared with its neighbours

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
Harlow 56 MW0 MWnot visible
Brentwood and Ongar 1 MW50 MWnot visible
Epping Forest 0.6 MW1.8 MWnot visible
Broxbourne 0 MW0 MWnot visible
North West Essex 623 MW68 MWnot visible
Hertford and Stortford 0.9 MW0 MWnot visible

North West Essex next door has 623 MW waiting, more than Harlow's 56 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
  • 3 story angles for local reporting
  • A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
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