CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Newbury
Newbury has 5.4 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,102 homes.
Ranks 257 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Gardens - Solar FarmCalleva Community Energy Limited | Solar | 3 MW1,100 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01361/FULMAJ |
| Hungerford Park - Solar ArrayHungerford Park | Solar | 2.5 MW900 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/02810/FULMAJ |
| Harrods Distribution Centre, Mill Lane - Solar ArrayPrivate Developer | Solar | 1.6 MW600 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02986/FULMAJ |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newbury | 5.4 MW | 18 MW | not visible |
| North West Hampshire | 4.7 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| Reading West and Mid Berkshire | 32 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
| East Wiltshire | 2.3 MW | 63 MW | not visible |
| Witney | 48 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| Didcot and Wantage | 103 MW | 121 MW | not visible |
Didcot and Wantage next door has 103 MW waiting, more than Newbury's 5.4 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.