CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Swindon South
Swindon South has 2.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 900 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.3m across the constituency's 46,735 homes.
Ranks 318 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit O, Penzance Drive - Solar PanelsOrtus Energy | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S/23/0975 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swindon South | 2.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Chippenham | 103 MW | 101 MW | not visible |
| East Wiltshire | 2.3 MW | 63 MW | not visible |
| Swindon North | 58 MW | 105 MW | not visible |
| South Cotswolds | 194 MW | 224 MW | not visible |
South Cotswolds next door has 194 MW waiting, more than Swindon South's 2.6 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.