Droitwich and Evesham
Droitwich and Evesham has 67 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 24,000 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,897 homes.
Ranks 100 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fibden Farm - Solar ArrayGrenergy Renewables | Solar | 15,000 homes 40 MW |
Waiting 2.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wychavon Council |
| Fibden Farm, Hampton Lovett - Solar ArrayGrenergy Renewables | Solar | 15,000 homes 40 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Mount Farm, Mount Pleasant - Solar FarmMount Farm Solar Limited | Solar | 13,000 homes 35 MW |
Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 12 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How Droitwich and Evesham compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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