CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Havant
Havant has 1.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,761 homes.
Ranks 374 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedhampton Pumping Station, Meyrick Road - Battery Energy StorageE101 Hub 4 Limited | Battery | 150 MW | Waiting 15 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Havant Council · planning ref APP/25/00351 |
| Dunsbury Park, Fitzwygram Way - Solar PanelsWatson Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions | Solar | 1.2 MW500 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref APP/24/00287 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Havant | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Portsmouth North | 12 MW | 1.2 MW | not visible |
| Chichester | 19 MW | 75 MW | not visible |
| Fareham and Waterlooville | 11 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| East Hampshire | 78 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
East Hampshire next door has 78 MW waiting, more than Havant's 1.5 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.