CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Harlow
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 developer | Tech | Size | Why 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
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlow | 56 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Brentwood and Ongar | 1 MW | 50 MW | not visible |
| Epping Forest | 0.6 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Broxbourne | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| North West Essex | 623 MW | 68 MW | not visible |
| Hertford and Stortford | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not 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
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.