CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Hertford and Stortford
Hertford and Stortford has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,215 homes.
Ranks 433 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ware Solar Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy StoragThe Farm Energy Company | Solar | 8,700 homes 24 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Westmill Quarry, Westmill Road - Solar FarmBiffa Waste Services Limited | Solar | 2,700 homes 7.3 MW |
Waiting 2.9 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Hertfordshire Council |
| Ware Solar Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy StoragThe Farm Energy Company | Battery | 5 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 3 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 Hertford and Stortford compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 2 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.