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Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket

MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Labour) England Data to July 2026

Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket has 52 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 19,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,175 homes.

Ranks 121 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Firsfield Solar FarmEnray Power Limited Solar 17,000 homes
47 MW
Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company
Valley Farm, Hessett - Solar PanelsOpdenergy UK Limted Solar 15,000 homes
42 MW
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company
Bardwell Fields, Knox Lane - Solar FarmOpdenergy UK 23 Limited Solar 15,000 homes
42 MW
Waiting 1.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: West Suffolk Council

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