CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Mansfield
Mansfield has 46 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 17,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,937 homes.
Ranks 149 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brecks Solar FarmGreen Switch Capital Limited | Solar | 45 MW16,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00656/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mansfield | 46 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| Ashfield | 7.8 MW | 4.7 MW | not visible |
| Sherwood Forest | 3.2 MW | 125 MW | not visible |
| Bolsover | 35 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| Bassetlaw | 114 MW | 85 MW | not visible |
Bassetlaw next door has 114 MW waiting, more than Mansfield's 46 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.