CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP

Clacton

MP: Nigel Farage (Reform UK) England Data to July 2026

Clacton has 64 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 23,000 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,395 homes.

Ranks 105 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Thorpe Park Solar Farm, Thorpe Le Soken - Solar FarmLow Carbon UK Solar Investment Co Limited Solar 15,000 homes
40 MW
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company
Halstead Road Eco Hub - Solar Farm & Battery StorageNaturalis Energy Developments Limited Solar 9,400 homes
26 MW
Refused by Tendring Council in 2022Who can move it: Tendring Council
Hartley Wood Farm - Solar FarmBluefield Renewable Developments Limited/Anglo Solar 8,200 homes
22 MW
Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company

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