CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
West Suffolk
West Suffolk has 502 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 182,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.7m across the constituency's 50,690 homes.
Ranks 8 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnica Energy Farm (East and West)Sunnica | Solar | 500 MW182,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010106 |
| River Linnet Solar Farm, Harram Hill - Solar FarmQuintas Cleantech | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Refused by West Suffolk Council in 2026Who can move it: West Suffolk Council · planning ref DC/25/0909/FUL |
| Water Hall Farm, Waterhall Road - Solar FarmBluefield Renewable Developments Limited | Solar | 35 MW13,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/23/1127/FUL |
| Brandon Fields Estate, Brandon Fields - Solar PanelsOPDE Energy | Solar | 28 MW10,000 homes | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: West Suffolk Council · planning ref DC/25/0885/FUL |
| Wales End Road, Cavendish - Solar FarmNoventum Power Limited | Solar | 12 MW4,500 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: West Suffolk Council · planning ref DC/25/1027/FUL |
| Wales End Road, Cavendish - Battery Energy Storage SystemNoventum Power Limited | Battery | 10 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: West Suffolk Council · planning ref DC/25/1027/FUL |
| Sunnica Energy Farm (East and West)Sunnica | Battery | 8.8 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010106 |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Suffolk | 502 MW | 94 MW | not visible |
| Braintree | 51 MW | 70 MW | not visible |
| South Suffolk | 1 MW | 2.8 MW | not visible |
| South Cambridgeshire | 27 MW | 251 MW | not visible |
| Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket | 52 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Ely and East Cambridgeshire | 145 MW | 257 MW | not visible |
West Suffolk 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.