CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
South Basildon and East Thurrock
South Basildon and East Thurrock has 50 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,534 homes.
Ranks 137 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Energy Centre - Battery Energy StorageIntergen Limited | Battery | 450 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01971/FUL |
| Lower Dunton Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemLJ Construction UK Limited | Battery | 368 MW | Waiting 21 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Basildon Council · planning ref 24/01239/FULL |
| Bulphan Fen Solar Farm & Battery StorageWarley Green Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/00077/FUL |
| Lime Kilns Energy Centre - Battery Energy StorageFlexitricity | Battery | 6 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01069/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Basildon and East Thurrock | 50 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Thurrock | 18 MW | 105 MW | not visible |
| Castle Point | 1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Hornchurch and Upminster | 50 MW | 2.6 MW | not visible |
| Basildon and Billericay | 7.7 MW | 36 MW | not visible |
| Rayleigh and Wickford | 80 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
Rayleigh and Wickford next door has 80 MW waiting, more than South Basildon and East Thurrock's 50 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.