CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Tunbridge Wells
Tunbridge Wells has 54 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 20,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,382 homes.
Ranks 114 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maidstone Road, Horsmonden - Paddock Solar FarmVoltalia UK | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/02773/FULL |
| Reeds Solar Farm, Alders Road - Solar Farm & Battery StorageLow Carbon | Battery | 20 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/03563/FULL |
| Reeds Solar Farm, Alders Road - Solar Farm & Battery StorageLow Carbon | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/03563/FULL |
| Knockout Print Services, Petteridge Lane - Solar PanelsKnockout Print Services Limited | Solar | 2.5 MW900 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02277/PN14J |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tunbridge Wells | 54 MW | 31 MW | not visible |
| Bexhill and Battle | 1.9 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Sussex Weald | 1.1 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Weald of Kent | 51 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Tonbridge | 11 MW | 4.7 MW | not visible |
Tunbridge Wells 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.