CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
New Forest East
New Forest East has 15 MW of renewables running, enough for 5,500 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 38,908 homes.
Ranks 472 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Road, Marchwood - Battery Energy StorageBW ESS Development UK Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/10639 |
| Bulls Copse Road, Marchwood Bypass - Battery Energy Storage SystemSky UK Development Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/10640 |
| Thornlands Farm, Fletchwood Road - Solar FarmEnviromena Asset Management UK Limited | Solar | 12 MW4,400 homes | Refused by New Forest Council in 2024Who can move it: New Forest Council · planning ref 23/01683FULL |
| Fletchwood Lane, Totton - Solar ParkTrant Engineering Limited | Solar | 5.3 MW1,900 homes | Refused by New Forest Council in 2026Who can move it: New Forest Council · planning ref 25/00760FULL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Forest East | 0.6 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Salisbury | 52 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| New Forest West | 24 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| Southampton Test | 1.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Romsey and Southampton North | 118 MW | 165 MW | not visible |
Romsey and Southampton North next door has 118 MW waiting, more than New Forest East's 0.6 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.