CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Hertford and Stortford
Hertford and Stortford has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,215 homes.
Ranks 433 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ware Solar Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy StorageThe Farm Energy Company | Solar | 24 MW8,700 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 3/24/1275/FUL |
| Westmill Quarry, Westmill Road - Solar FarmBiffa Waste Services Limited | Solar | 7.3 MW2,700 homes | Waiting 2.9 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Hertfordshire Council · planning ref PL/0357/23 |
| Ware Solar Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy StorageThe Farm Energy Company | Battery | 5 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 3/24/1275/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hertford and Stortford | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Broxbourne | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Harlow | 56 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| North West Essex | 623 MW | 68 MW | not visible |
| North East Hertfordshire | 75 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
North West Essex next door has 623 MW waiting, more than Hertford and Stortford's 0.9 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.