CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Reading West and Mid Berkshire
Reading West and Mid Berkshire has 32 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 11,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.5m across the constituency's 37,931 homes.
Ranks 172 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading QuarryJ Mould (Reading) | EfW Incineration | 40 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/02029/COMIND |
| Bloomfield Hatch Farm - Solar Farm & BatteryHorizon Power & Energy Limited | Solar | 26 MW9,400 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01330/REG3 |
| Bath Road, Grange Lane - Solar Photovoltaic ArrayGrundon Waste Management Limited | Solar | 12 MW4,400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01899/FULMAJ |
| Sulhamstead Solar Field - Stud FarmMulbrick Clean Energy | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 15/02148/COMIND |
| Motorway Service Area, Burghfield - Solar FarmMoto Hospitality Limited | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/02801/FULMAJ |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading West and Mid Berkshire | 32 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
| North West Hampshire | 4.7 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| North East Hampshire | 168 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
| Earley and Woodley | 3.7 MW | 7 MW | not visible |
| Newbury | 5.4 MW | 18 MW | not visible |
| Wokingham | 48 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
North East Hampshire next door has 168 MW waiting, more than Reading West and Mid Berkshire's 32 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.