CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Spelthorne
Spelthorne has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,805 homes.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunbury Battery Energy Storage System - Battery Energy Storage SystemEcoDev Group Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2031, 5 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid · earliest connection 2031 · planning ref 24/01112/FUL |
| Long Lane, Stanwell - Battery Energy StorageHarwood Project One Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01541/FUL |
| Charlton Lane Eco Park (ACT)SITA UK | Advanced Conversion Technologies | 3.6 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 10/00947/SCC |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spelthorne | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Runnymede and Weybridge | 0.6 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Esher and Walton | 0.3 MW | 2.4 MW | not visible |
| Twickenham | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Windsor | 0.7 MW | 4.8 MW | not visible |
| Feltham and Heston | 2.6 MW | 1.7 MW | not visible |
Feltham and Heston next door has 2.6 MW waiting, more than Spelthorne's 0 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.