CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Witham
Witham has 24 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 8,600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,668 homes.
Ranks 186 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cressing East - Solar FarmEDF Energy Renewables | Solar | 25 MW9,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02613/FUL |
| Park Road - Solar FarmNovus Renewable Services Limited | Solar | 22 MW8,200 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/03735/FUL |
| Kentish Farm 2 - Battery Energy StoragePush Energy | Battery | 22 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Braintree Council · planning ref 25/01553/FUL |
| Kentish Farm 2 - Solar FarmPush Energy | Solar | 16 MW6,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Braintree Council · planning ref 25/01553/FUL |
| Skye Green Solar FarmPS Renewables Limited | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/02658/FUL |
| Cressing Farm, Witham Road - Solar FarmEden Renewables | Solar | 14 MW5,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/02673/FUL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Witham | 24 MW | 193 MW | not visible |
| Maldon | 139 MW | 63 MW | not visible |
| Harwich and North Essex | 21 MW | 68 MW | not visible |
| North West Essex | 623 MW | 68 MW | not visible |
| Colchester | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Braintree | 51 MW | 70 MW | not visible |
North West Essex next door has 623 MW waiting, more than Witham's 24 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
- 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.