CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Wokingham
Wokingham has 48 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 17,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,180 homes.
Ranks 147 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barkham Farms - Solar FarmWokingham Borough Council | Solar | 33 MW12,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 211081 |
| Spencers Wood Solar Farm, Basingstoke Road - Solar ArrayGreentech | Solar | 28 MW10,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 232653 |
| Aborfield Solar ParkWessex Solar Energy | Solar | 14 MW5,100 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 200711 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wokingham | 48 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Aldershot | 1.8 MW | 1.7 MW | not visible |
| Bracknell | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Maidenhead | 23 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| North East Hampshire | 168 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
| Earley and Woodley | 3.7 MW | 7 MW | not visible |
North East Hampshire next door has 168 MW waiting, more than Wokingham's 48 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.