CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Telford
Telford has 3.9 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,400 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,309 homes.
Ranks 277 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halesfield - Energy FacilityCartwrights Waste Disposal Limited | EfW Incineration | 15 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref TWC/2021/0552 |
| Telford Shopping Centre - Solar Photovoltaic PV ArrayTelford Trustee No.1 Limited | Solar | 1.8 MW700 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref TWC/2021/1135 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telford | 3.9 MW | 1.2 MW | not visible |
| South Shropshire | 112 MW | 78 MW | not visible |
| The Wrekin | 221 MW | 75 MW | not visible |
The Wrekin next door has 221 MW waiting, more than Telford's 3.9 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.