CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
North East Hertfordshire
North East Hertfordshire has 75 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 27,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,215 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
Ranks 91 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ginns Road, Stocking Pelham - Battery Energy StorageFRV TH Powertek Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2034, 9 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid · earliest connection 2034 · planning ref 3/24/1953/FUL |
| Beane Solar Farm - Solar PanelsRenewable Energy Systems RES ltd (Beaufort) | Battery | 354 MW | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Hertfordshire Council · planning ref 3/24/2245/FUL |
| Westfield Conservation Park - Battery Energy Storage SystemLightrock Power Limited | Battery | 99 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: North Hertfordshire Council · planning ref 25/01947/FP |
| Dellows, Ginns Road - Battery StorageGrenergy Renewables UK Limited | Battery | 90 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Hertfordshire Council · planning ref 3/25/0917/FUL |
| Stocking Pelham - Battery Storage SystemRenewable Connections | Battery | 50 MW | Refused by East Hertfordshire Council in 2025Who can move it: East Hertfordshire Council · planning ref 3/22/0806/FUL |
| Greens Farm - Battery energy storageCambridge Power | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 3/21/0969/FUL |
| Beane Solar Farm - Solar PanelsRenewable Energy Systems RES ltd (Beaufort) | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Hertfordshire Council · planning ref 3/24/2245/FUL |
| Tophams Solar FarmPathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00741/FP |
| Wickham Hall Estate Solar Photovoltaic FarmEndurance Energy Wickham Hall Limited | Solar | 35 MW13,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 3/21/2601/FUL |
| Tophams Solar FarmPathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Battery | 8 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00741/FP |
| Letchworth Garden City - Urban Reserve Energy Storage FacilityAMP Energy Services Limited | Battery | 5 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00226/FP |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North East Hertfordshire | 75 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Broxbourne | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Hertsmere | 1.4 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| Hitchin | 50 MW | 33 MW | not visible |
| North West Essex | 623 MW | 68 MW | not visible |
| North Bedfordshire | 74 MW | 97 MW | not visible |
North West Essex next door has 623 MW waiting, more than North East Hertfordshire's 75 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.