West Worcestershire
West Worcestershire has 5.8 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,100 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,397 homes.
Ranks 252 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Waddings, Knighton-On-Teme - Battery Energy Storage SystemIntegrum SPV 22298 Limited | Battery | 60 MW | Waiting 20 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Malvern Hills Council · planning ref M/24/01660/FUL |
| Chapel Hill - Solar ArraysJBM Solar Projects Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Refused by Malvern Hills Council in 2025Who can move it: Malvern Hills Council · planning ref M/24/01781/FUL |
| Whitehouse Farm Energy BarnBluefield Solar Income Fund | Battery | 40 MW | Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 17/01504/FUL |
| Home FarmCanadian Solar / Novergy | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00499/FUL |
| Sinton Green Solar FarmBRL Solar UK Limited | Solar | 21 MW7,600 homes | Refused by Malvern Hills Council in 2023Who can move it: Malvern Hills Council · planning ref 21/01846/FUL |
| Fitcher Brook Solar FarmTyler Hill Renewables Limited | Solar | 19 MW6,900 homes | Waiting 2.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Malvern Hills Council · planning ref M/23/01698/FUL |
| Stockton Court farmRenewable Power Exchange | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 15/01017/FUL |
| Hangmans LanePrivate Developer | EfW Incineration | 5 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 15/000025/CL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Worcestershire | 5.8 MW | 95 MW | not visible |
| Tewkesbury | 66 MW | 41 MW | not visible |
| Droitwich and Evesham | 67 MW | 122 MW | not visible |
| Forest of Dean | 64 MW | 98 MW | not visible |
| North Herefordshire | 2.3 MW | 50 MW | not visible |
| Worcester | 1.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Droitwich and Evesham next door has 67 MW waiting, more than West Worcestershire's 5.8 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.