CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Old Bexley and Sidcup
Old Bexley and Sidcup has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,715 homes. A 200 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 701,000 homes.
Ranks 516 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manor Farm, Dartford Road - Energy Storage SystemNet Zero Thirty Three Limited | Battery | 212 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Bexley Council · planning ref 25/01153/FULM |
| North Cray Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemFirstway Energy | Battery | 200 MW | Refused by Bexley Council in 2025Who can move it: Bexley Council · planning ref 25/00833/FULM |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Bexley and Sidcup | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sevenoaks | 50 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Orpington | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Eltham and Chislehurst | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Dartford | 4.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bexleyheath and Crayford | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Sevenoaks next door has 50 MW waiting, more than Old Bexley and Sidcup's 0.3 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.