CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Melksham and Devizes
Melksham and Devizes has 51 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,462 homes.
Ranks 132 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norrington Gate Farm, Broughton Gifford - Battery Energy Storage FacilityADV 003 Limited | Battery | 150 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2022/03914 |
| Studley Farm - Solar Farm & Battery StorageMelksham Calne Green Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2021/08690 |
| Potterne Park Farm, Potterne - Solar FarmPotterne Solar Project Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2023/10332 |
| Blounts Court Farm, Potterne - Solar PanelsGreenfield Energy Developments Limited | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Refused by Wiltshire Council in 2025Who can move it: Wiltshire Council · planning ref PL/2024/04926 |
| Byde Mill Solar Farm, Poulshot - Solar FarmAmpyr | Solar | 14 MW4,900 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2024/11631 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melksham and Devizes | 51 MW | 133 MW | not visible |
| South West Wiltshire | 74 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| Chippenham | 103 MW | 101 MW | not visible |
| East Wiltshire | 2.3 MW | 63 MW | not visible |
| South Cotswolds | 194 MW | 224 MW | not visible |
| Frome and East Somerset | 87 MW | 34 MW | not visible |
South Cotswolds next door has 194 MW waiting, more than Melksham and Devizes's 51 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.