CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
North Dorset
North Dorset has 97 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 35,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,125 homes.
Ranks 69 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaftesbury Energy Park - Battery Storage SystemTagEnergy | Battery | 100 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2036, 13 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid |
| Fernbrook - Solar farm & Battery storageLow Carbon UK Solar Investment Company Limited | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Woodlands Manor Farm, Horton - Solar FarmBayWa r.e. UKLimited / Grüne Energien Projekt | Solar | 11,000 homes 30 MW |
Approved a year 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 North Dorset 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.