CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Loughborough
Loughborough has 95 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 34,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,360 homes.
Ranks 73 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mantle Solar Farm, Wymeswold - Solar FarmExagen | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 18 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Charnwood Council · planning ref P/25/0782/2 |
| Long Whatton - Solar FarmEndurance Energy Oakley Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/23/0379/2 |
| Nottingham Road - Solar FarmNextPower SPV 9 Limited | Solar | 34 MW12,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/21/2160/2 |
| Poole Farm, Quorn - Solar FarmLeicestershire County Council | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2022/Reg3Ma/0010/LCC |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loughborough | 95 MW | 43 MW | not visible |
| Mid Leicestershire | 2.8 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Melton and Syston | 76 MW | 34 MW | not visible |
| Rushcliffe | 163 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| North West Leicestershire | 7.5 MW | 64 MW | not visible |
Rushcliffe next door has 163 MW waiting, more than Loughborough's 95 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.