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Hornchurch and Upminster
Hornchurch and Upminster has 50 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 41,963 homes.
Ranks 138 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Tye Farm - Energy Storage FacilityLondon & Essex Energy Limited | Battery | 200 MW |
Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Havering Council |
| Fen Lane, Bulphan Solar FarmDIF Capital Partners | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
| Clay Tye Road - Solar FarmREG Windpower Limited | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Waiting 5.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Havering Council |
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 Hornchurch and Upminster 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
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.