West Ham and Beckton
West Ham and Beckton has 1.4 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 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, £4.5m across the constituency's 49,201 homes.
Ranks 386 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Ham and Beckton | 1.4 MW | 3.2 MW | not visible |
| Poplar and Limehouse | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Stratford and Bow | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| East Ham | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Barking | 3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Barking next door has 3 MW waiting, more than West Ham and Beckton's 1.4 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 1 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.