Honiton and Sidmouth
Honiton and Sidmouth has 39 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 14,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,238 homes. A 150 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 526,000 homes.
Ranks 159 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stammery Hill - Battery Energy Storage SystemClearstone Energy | Battery | 150 MW | Refused by East Devon Council in 2025Who can move it: East Devon Council · planning ref 24/0096/MFUL |
| Pound Road, Hawkchurch - Battery Energy StorageEnso Green Holdings B Limited | Battery | 120 MW | Refused by East Devon Council in 2024Who can move it: East Devon Council · planning ref 22/2216/MFUL |
| Pound Road, Hawkchurch - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnso Energy Limited | Battery | 120 MW | Refused by East Devon Council in 2023Who can move it: East Devon Council · planning ref 23/1124/MFUL |
| Newlands Farm, Crewkerne Road - Battery Energy StorageSky UK Development Limited | Battery | 80 MW | Refused by East Devon Council in 2025Who can move it: East Devon Council · planning ref 24/2650/MFUL |
| Wareham Road, Scouse Farm - Battery StorageYlem Energy Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Refused by East Devon Council in 2025Who can move it: East Devon Council · planning ref 24/2067/MFUL |
| National Grid Axminster SubstationHarbour Energy | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 5.9 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Devon Council · planning ref 20/1877/FUL |
| Escot Park Estate, Talaton - Solar FarmElgin Energy Esco Limited | Solar | 35 MW13,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: East Devon Council · planning ref 24/1098/MFUL |
| Beavor - Photovoltaic Solar ArraysAnesco Limited / Gresham House | Solar | 19 MW6,900 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/2992/MFUL |
| Rockbeare HillSpring Che | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 19/2832/MFUL |
| Dunkeswell AirfieldConrad (Tiddlywink) Limited | Battery | 6.5 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/2169/FUL |
| Little Toms - Solar FarmPS Renewables | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 23/01838/MFUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honiton and Sidmouth | 39 MW | 77 MW | not visible |
| Exmouth and Exeter East | 150 MW | 50 MW | not visible |
| Yeovil | 48 MW | 44 MW | not visible |
| Taunton and Wellington | 22 MW | 32 MW | not visible |
| Tiverton and Minehead | 107 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| West Dorset | 37 MW | 83 MW | not visible |
Exmouth and Exeter East next door has 150 MW waiting, more than Honiton and Sidmouth's 39 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
- 3 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.