CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Slough
Slough has 1.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 400 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 45,048 homes.
Ranks 396 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slough Heat & Power StationScottish and Southern Energy (SSE) | EfW Incineration | 50 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref P/00987/024 |
| Wexham Park Hospital, Wexham Street - Solar PV PanelsFrimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Solar | 1.6 MW600 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref F/06622/096 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slough | 1.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Windsor | 0.7 MW | 4.8 MW | not visible |
| Beaconsfield | 0.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Slough 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
- 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.