CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Hemel Hempstead
Hemel Hempstead has 2.8 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,843 homes.
Ranks 307 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pudds Cross Farm, Pudds Cross - Solar Panels & Battery Energy StorageBSR Energy | Solar | 22 MW8,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/01535/MFA |
| Pudds Cross Farm, Pudds Cross - Solar Panels & Battery Energy StorageBSR Energy | Battery | 10 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/01535/MFA |
| G Park Maxted Road - Solar PanelsBBUKPF | Solar | 1.2 MW500 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01770/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hemel Hempstead | 2.8 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| Chesham and Amersham | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| South West Hertfordshire | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Harpenden and Berkhamsted | 0.3 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
Hemel Hempstead has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.