Mid Buckinghamshire
Mid Buckinghamshire has 136 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 49,000 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, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,109 homes.
Ranks 39 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Claydon Substation, East Claydon Road - Energy Statkraft UK Limited | Battery | 500 MW |
Waiting 1.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Buckinghamshire Council |
| Whirlbush Farm, Kingsey - Solar Farm & Battery StoraStark Energy | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Callie's Solar FarmLow Carbon UK Solar Investment Company Limited | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 8 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 Mid Buckinghamshire 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