CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Leicester West
Leicester West has 3.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.4m across the constituency's 47,499 homes.
Ranks 285 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pepsico International Limited, Leycroft Road - Solar PanelsWalkers Snacks (Distribution) Limited | Solar | 3.2 MW1,200 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20240078 |
| Hoods Close - Solar PanelsTrelleborg Industrial AVS | Solar | 1.7 MW600 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20230307 |
| Sunningdale Road - Solar PanelsHarvest Green Developments | Solar | 1.6 MW600 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20251031 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leicester West | 3.6 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| South Leicestershire | 125 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Leicester South | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leicester East | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Mid Leicestershire | 2.8 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
South Leicestershire next door has 125 MW waiting, more than Leicester West's 3.6 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.