CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
South West Devon
South West Devon has 20 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 7,700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,475 homes.
Ranks 198 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chelson Meadow - Solar FarmPEC Renewables Limited & Plymouth City Council | Solar | 13 MW4,700 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00219/FUL |
| Langage Energy Park - Hydrogen Production FacilityLangage Energy Park Limited (Carlton Power) | Hydrogen | 10 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1836/22/FUL |
| Mayflower Water Treatment Works, Roborough Down - Solar ArraySouth West Water | Solar | 1.6 MW600 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1619/23/FUL |
| Tamerton Road, Roborough - Solar PanelsPlessey Semi Conductors Limited | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 0655/22/PST |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| South West Devon | 20 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| South Devon | 2.7 MW | 54 MW | not visible |
| Plymouth Sutton and Devonport | 0.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Plymouth Moor View | 5.5 MW | 4.1 MW | not visible |
| Torridge and Tavistock | 70 MW | 188 MW | not visible |
Torridge and Tavistock next door has 70 MW waiting, more than South West Devon's 20 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.