Truro and Falmouth
Truro and Falmouth has 80 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 29,000 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,861 homes. There is also 28 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 82 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tregonning Farm - Solar Farm & Battery StorageEuropean Energy | Solar | 68 MW25,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref PA22/01511 |
| Fair Park Solar FarmDowning Renewable Developments Llp | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PA23/02629 |
| Tregonning Farm - Solar Farm & Battery StorageEuropean Energy | Battery | 48 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref PA22/01511 |
| Fair Park Solar FarmDowning Renewable Developments Llp | Battery | 20 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PA23/02629 |
| Carland Cross - Solar FarmScottish Power Limited Payments and Supplier Services Department | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref PA19/08080 |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truro and Falmouth | 80 MW | 99 MW | not visible |
| Camborne and Redruth | 35 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| St Austell and Newquay | 11 MW | 96 MW | not visible |
Truro and Falmouth has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.