CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Rochester and Strood
Rochester and Strood has 1.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,442 homes.
Ranks 358 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power Station Road, Isle Of Grain - Battery Energy StorageEcostor Grain West Limited | Battery | 249 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref MC/25/1338 |
| Medway One - Energy HubLow Carbon Limited | EfW Incineration | 50 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref MC/24/0489 |
| Sundridge HillRNA Energy | Battery | 50 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref MC/17/3770 |
| London Medway Commercial ParkPegasus Planning Group | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref MC/21/0092 |
| Mid Kent College Medway Campus, Medway Road - Battery Storage, ASHPMid Kent College | Battery | 1 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref MC/23/2594 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester and Strood | 1.7 MW | 12 MW | not visible |
| Chatham and Aylesford | 1 MW | 4.5 MW | not visible |
| Gillingham and Rainham | 2.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Gravesham | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Gillingham and Rainham next door has 2.7 MW waiting, more than Rochester and Strood's 1.7 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.