Mid Buckinghamshire
Mid Buckinghamshire has 136 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 49,000 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,109 homes.
Ranks 39 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Claydon Substation, East Claydon Road - Energy StorageStatkraft UK Limited | Battery | 500 MW | Waiting 15 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Buckinghamshire Council · planning ref 25/01297/APP |
| Whirlbush Farm, Kingsey - Solar Farm & Battery StorageStark Energy | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/02821/APP |
| Callie's Solar FarmLow Carbon UK Solar Investment Company 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 22/00986/APP |
| Kimblewick Road Solar FarmKimblewick Solar Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02077/APP |
| Moat Farm - Solar FarmAnesco Limited | Solar | 24 MW8,700 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/03182/APP |
| Bumpers Farm Phase 2Anesco | Solar | 12 MW4,400 homes | Approved 11 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 14/01926/APP |
| Littleton Green - Energy ParkArnold White Estates Limited | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Waiting 3.8 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Buckinghamshire Council · planning ref 22/03384/AOP |
| Littleton Green - Energy ParkArnold White Estates Limited | Onshore wind | 6.2 MW5,400 homes | Waiting 3.8 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Buckinghamshire Council · planning ref 22/03384/AOP |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Buckinghamshire | 136 MW | 7.8 MW | not visible |
| Wycombe | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Henley and Thame | 151 MW | 35 MW | not visible |
| Bicester and Woodstock | 112 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| Buckingham and Bletchley | 130 MW | 60 MW | not visible |
| Chesham and Amersham | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Henley and Thame next door has 151 MW waiting, more than Mid Buckinghamshire's 136 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.