CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire has 52 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 19,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,529 homes.
Ranks 116 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stargoose Farm - Battery StorageSolarcentury Limited / Statkraft Uk Limited | Battery | 312 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/02173/FUL |
| Weald Farm, Cambridge Road - Solar Farm & Battery StorageAshfield District Council / Voltalia UK | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00295/FUL |
| Stargoose Farm - Solar FarmSolarcentury Limited / Statkraft Uk Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/02173/FUL |
| Abbotsley Country Homes, Drewels Lane - Solar FarmLow Carbon Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01507/FUL |
| Weald Farm, Cambridge Road - Solar Farm & Battery StorageAshfield District Council / Voltalia UK | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00295/FUL |
| Falcon Park, Wilsons Road - Solar Farm & Battery Energy StorageRegener8 Power Limited | Solar | 26 MW9,400 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: South Cambridgeshire Council · planning ref 25/02539/FUL |
| Falcon Park, Wilsons Road - Solar Farm & Battery Energy StorageRegener8 Power Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: South Cambridgeshire Council · planning ref 25/02539/FUL |
| Abbotsley Country Homes, Drewels Lane - Solar FarmLow Carbon Limited | Battery | 6 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01507/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire | 52 MW | 10 MW | not visible |
| North Bedfordshire | 74 MW | 97 MW | not visible |
| Huntingdon | 32 MW | 157 MW | not visible |
| South Cambridgeshire | 27 MW | 251 MW | not visible |
| Cambridge | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Ely and East Cambridgeshire | 145 MW | 257 MW | not visible |
Ely and East Cambridgeshire next door has 145 MW waiting, more than St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire's 52 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.