CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Isle of Wight West
Isle of Wight West has 31 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 11,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £2.9m across the constituency's 31,819 homes.
Ranks 173 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnfield Solar Farm, Wilmingham Lane - Solar PV PanelsLow Carbon UK Solar | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01793/FUL |
| Isle of Wight Waste Recovery ParkAmeyCespa | Advanced Conversion Technologies | 3.3 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref P/01376/15 |
| Gkn & Whippingham Technology Park, Beatrice Avenue - Solar PanelsGKN Aerospace Services Limited | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00630/FUL |
| Arreton Valley Nursery, Hale Common - Battery StorageIow Squirrel Limited | Battery | 1.3 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00900/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isle of Wight West | 31 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| Isle of Wight East | 0 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
Isle of Wight West has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- 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
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