CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Swindon North
Swindon North has 58 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 21,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,276 homes.
Ranks 110 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queenslaine Farm, Highworth Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemElgin Energy | Battery | 66 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S/25/0250 |
| Corner Copse Solar FarmBayWa r.e. UK Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref S/19/1097 |
| Catsbrain Farm - Battery StorageConrad Energy (Developments) II Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S/22/1051 |
| Little Rose Lane, Blunsdon - Solar PanelsQuintas Cleantech | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S/25/0809 |
| Keypoint Industrial EstateRolton Group | Advanced Conversion Technologies | 14 MW | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S/16/1055 |
| Brindley Close (Extension)Public Power Solutions | Battery | 6 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref S/20/0850 |
Plus 3 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swindon North | 58 MW | 105 MW | not visible |
| East Wiltshire | 2.3 MW | 63 MW | not visible |
| Swindon South | 2.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Witney | 48 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| South Cotswolds | 194 MW | 224 MW | not visible |
South Cotswolds next door has 194 MW waiting, more than Swindon North's 58 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.