CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Suffolk Coastal
Suffolk Coastal 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,806 homes.
Ranks 115 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chediston Hall - 40MW Solar PanelsSky UK Development Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Suffolk Council · planning ref DC/25/2021/FUL |
| Bucklesham Solar FarmNovus Renewable Services Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/22/4401/FUL |
| Town Farm - Solar panelsBritish Solar Renewables | Solar | 21 MW7,600 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/21/5515/FUL |
| Felixstowe Mega Distibution Centre - Photovoltaic ArraysUniserve Group | Solar | 2.5 MW900 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/22/2379/FUL |
| Rock Barracks Solar FarmPublic Power Solutions (PPS) | Solar | 1.5 MW500 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref DC/20/1198/FUL |
| HMP Hollesley - Solar ArrayMinistry of Justice | Solar | 1.2 MW400 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/21/5605/CLP |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suffolk Coastal | 52 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| Ipswich | 1.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | 177 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Waveney Valley | 59 MW | 64 MW | not visible |
| Lowestoft | 0.2 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich next door has 177 MW waiting, more than Suffolk Coastal'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.