CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Newton Abbot
Newton Abbot has 21 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 7,600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,470 homes.
Ranks 195 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Court Barton Farm, Coffinswell - Solar FarmCoubar Energy Limited (Windel) | Solar | 21 MW7,600 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01533/MAJ |
| East Golds Works, Kingsteignton Road - Solar PanelsSibelco UK East Golds Works | Solar | 1.1 MW400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00080/NPA |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Abbot | 21 MW | 18 MW | not visible |
| South Devon | 2.7 MW | 54 MW | not visible |
| Torbay | 3.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Central Devon | 11 MW | 41 MW | not visible |
Newton Abbot has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.