CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Rugby
Rugby has 77 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 28,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,150 homes.
Ranks 88 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| T Main Road, Ansty - Battery Energy Storage SystemFRV Tyler Hill BESS 1 Ltd | Battery | 200 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref R24/0010 |
| Bungalow Farm, Smeaton Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemIntegrum Renewable Energy Limited | Battery | 60 MW | Waiting 18 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rugby Council · planning ref R24/1166 |
| Bungalow Farm, Smeaton Lane - Battery Energy StorageIntegrum Renewable Energy Limited | Battery | 60 MW | Waiting 18 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rugby Council · planning ref R24/1166 |
| Elms Farm - Hinckley Solar Farm & Battery StorageLow Carbon UK Solar Investment Co Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref R21/0622 |
| Hollyhurst Farm, Mile Tree Lane - Solar PanelsGreenfield Energy Developments Limited | Solar | 26 MW9,300 homes | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rugby Council · planning ref 40703 |
| Tolldish Hall Farm, Parrotts Grove - Solar Photovoltaic PanelsNovus Renewable Services Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 39235 |
| Coal Pit Lane, Willey - Solar FarmEnviromena | Solar | 16 MW5,800 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rugby Council · planning ref R25/0623 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rugby | 77 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| Kenilworth and Southam | 229 MW | 124 MW | not visible |
| Coventry South | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Coventry East | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Nuneaton | 1.6 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| North Warwickshire and Bedworth | 80 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
Kenilworth and Southam next door has 229 MW waiting, more than Rugby's 77 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.