CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Hereford and South Herefordshire
Hereford and South Herefordshire has 1.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,836 homes.
Ranks 366 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peterstow Gas Compressor Station, Hentland - Energy Storage SystemNovus Renewable Services Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P231390/F |
| Perserverance RoadNoriker Power | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P200967/F |
| A J Lowther and Son PremisePrivate Developer | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref P192795/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hereford and South Herefordshire | 1.6 MW | 6 MW | not visible |
| Forest of Dean | 64 MW | 98 MW | not visible |
| North Herefordshire | 2.3 MW | 50 MW | not visible |
| Monmouthshire | 33 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
| Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe | 39 MW | 87 MW | not visible |
Forest of Dean next door has 64 MW waiting, more than Hereford and South Herefordshire's 1.6 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.