CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
South Devon
South Devon has 2.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,872 homes.
Ranks 312 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hood Barton, Staverton - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnergy Planning | Battery | 99 MW | Waiting 20 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: South Hams Council · planning ref 3628/24/FUL |
| Brokenbury Farm, Galmpton - Solar FarmTorbay Development Agency | Solar | 2.7 MW1,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2021/0658 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Devon | 2.7 MW | 54 MW | not visible |
| South West Devon | 20 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Newton Abbot | 21 MW | 18 MW | not visible |
| Torbay | 3.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Central Devon | 11 MW | 41 MW | not visible |
| Torridge and Tavistock | 70 MW | 188 MW | not visible |
Torridge and Tavistock next door has 70 MW waiting, more than South Devon's 2.7 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.