CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Rayleigh and Wickford
Rayleigh and Wickford has 80 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 29,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,933 homes.
Ranks 85 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairlawns Farm, Chelmsford Road - Battery Energy StorageGresham House Devco Pipeline | Battery | 480 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00455/FUL |
| Rayleigh Spur Roundabout, Benfleet - Battery Energy Storage SystemRenewable Energy Systems RES ltd (Beaufort) | Battery | 150 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Basildon Council · planning ref 25/00898/FULL |
| South Fambridge Hall - Solar farm & Battery storageBritish Solar Renewables / BayWa r.e. UK Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/00605/FUL |
| Great Wheatley Road - Solar FarmAura Power Solar UK Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/00175/FUL |
| South Fambridge Hall - Solar farm & Battery storageBritish Solar Renewables / BayWa r.e. UK Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/00605/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rayleigh and Wickford | 80 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| South Basildon and East Thurrock | 50 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Castle Point | 1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Southend West and Leigh | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Southend East and Rochford | 51 MW | 2.5 MW | not visible |
| Basildon and Billericay | 7.7 MW | 36 MW | not visible |
Rayleigh and Wickford 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.