Thurrock
Thurrock has 18 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 6,500 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 45,057 homes.
Ranks 206 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aveley Landfill, Sandy Lane - PV Solar Array & Battery Energy StorageInfinis Energy Services Limited | Solar | 16 MW5,800 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00141/FUL |
| Ocado Operating Limited, New Purfleet Road - Solar PanelsSaber Renewable Energy Limited | Solar | 2.8 MW1,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00243/PASOL |
| Intu Lakeside, West Thurrock Way - Solar PanelsGlobal Mutual | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00777/PASOL |
| Tesco, Cygnet View - Solar PV ArraysTesco Plc | Solar | 1.1 MW400 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/01468/PASOND |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurrock | 18 MW | 105 MW | not visible |
| South Basildon and East Thurrock | 50 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Dagenham and Rainham | 0.9 MW | 7.9 MW | not visible |
| Hornchurch and Upminster | 50 MW | 2.6 MW | not visible |
South Basildon and East Thurrock next door has 50 MW waiting, more than Thurrock's 18 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.