CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Mid Dorset and North Poole
Mid Dorset and North Poole has 3.3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,200 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,506 homes.
Ranks 293 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mannington Battery Energy Storage SystemEDF Energy Renewables | Battery | 50 MW | Its grid connection date of 2025 has passed and it is still not generatingWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid · earliest connection 2025 · planning ref 3/21/0137/FUL |
| Holt Road - Battery Energy StorageEDF Energy Renewables | Battery | 48 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/FUL/2023/06578 |
| Post Farm, Lytchett Minster - Battery Energy StorageS4N Lytchett Limited | Battery | 32 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/FUL/2023/02819 |
| Canford Resource Park- Energy from Waste/CHPMVV Environment Limited | EfW Incineration | 30 MW | Refused by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council in 2025Who can move it: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council · planning ref APP/23/00822/F |
| CanfordSyngas Products/ Canford Renewable Energy Ltd | Advanced Conversion Technologies | 10 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref APP/12/01559/F |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Dorset and North Poole | 3.3 MW | 90 MW | not visible |
| Poole | 1.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bournemouth West | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Christchurch | 36 MW | 128 MW | not visible |
| North Dorset | 97 MW | 94 MW | not visible |
| South Dorset | 73 MW | 73 MW | not visible |
North Dorset next door has 97 MW waiting, more than Mid Dorset and North Poole's 3.3 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
- 2 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.