CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Oxford West and Abingdon
Oxford West and Abingdon has 2.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.5m across the constituency's 38,163 homes.
Ranks 313 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Botley - Solar Photovoltaic ArrayRed House Solar Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Refused by Vale of White Horse Council in 2025Who can move it: Vale of White Horse Council · planning ref P24/V2489/FUL |
| Radley College, Kennington Gate - Solar Array & Battery StorageRadley College | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P23/V0861/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford West and Abingdon | 2.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Witney | 48 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| Didcot and Wantage | 103 MW | 121 MW | not visible |
| Henley and Thame | 151 MW | 35 MW | not visible |
| Oxford East | 0.2 MW | 3 MW | not visible |
| Bicester and Woodstock | 112 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
Henley and Thame next door has 151 MW waiting, more than Oxford West and Abingdon's 2.7 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.