CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
North Norfolk
North Norfolk has 9.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,026 homes.
Ranks 230 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heydon Road, Heydon - Solar PV PanelsGrupotec | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2025/2220 |
| Wayside FarmYge Warren House | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Approved 10 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PF/15/1536 |
| Scottow Solar Farm - Battery StorageConnected Energy Limited | Battery | 4.3 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PF/25/1203 |
| Paston Road, Bacton - Solar Photovoltaic ArrayShell UK (Head Office) | Solar | 1.6 MW600 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PF/21/1878 |
| R And Jm Pace, Church Road - Solar ArrayR & J M Place Limited | Solar | 1.1 MW400 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PF/22/3026 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Norfolk | 9.7 MW | 90 MW | not visible |
| Great Yarmouth | 1.6 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Broadland and Fakenham | 46 MW | 100 MW | not visible |
| North West Norfolk | 166 MW | 82 MW | not visible |
North West Norfolk next door has 166 MW waiting, more than North Norfolk's 9.7 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.