CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Maidenhead
Maidenhead has 23 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 8,300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,692 homes.
Ranks 188 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billingbear Solar FarmWT Energy Limited | Solar | 22 MW7,800 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02820/FULL |
| Horizon, Hurley - Solar PanelsFederated Hermes | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Waiting 3.9 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Windsor and Maidenhead Council · planning ref 22/02095/FULL |
| Car Park Legoland Windsor Resort, Winkfield Road - PV solar photovoltaicLegoland Windsor Park Limited | Solar | 1.2 MW400 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01093/CLAJ14 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maidenhead | 23 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| Surrey Heath | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bracknell | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Windsor | 0.7 MW | 4.8 MW | not visible |
| Wokingham | 48 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wycombe | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Wokingham next door has 48 MW waiting, more than Maidenhead's 23 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.