CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Harpenden and Berkhamsted
Harpenden and Berkhamsted has 13 MW of renewables running, enough for 4,800 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.5m across the constituency's 38,512 homes.
Ranks 532 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beechtree Junction, Potters Crouch - Solar PV PanelsExagen Development Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: St Albans Council · planning ref 5/2025/1132 |
| Little Heath Lane - Solar PV ArrayEnergi Generation | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Waiting 4.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Dacorum Council · planning ref 22/01106/MFA |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harpenden and Berkhamsted | 0.3 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| Mid Buckinghamshire | 136 MW | 7.8 MW | not visible |
| Chesham and Amersham | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| South West Hertfordshire | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Hemel Hempstead | 2.8 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| St Albans | 1.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Mid Buckinghamshire next door has 136 MW waiting, more than Harpenden and Berkhamsted's 0.3 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.