CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
North East Hertfordshire
North East Hertfordshire has 75 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 27,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,215 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
Ranks 91 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ginns Road, Stocking Pelham - Battery Energy StorageFRV TH Powertek Limited | Battery | 400 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2034, 9 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid |
| Beane Solar Farm - Solar PanelsRenewable Energy Systems RES ltd (Beaufort) | Battery | 354 MW |
Waiting 1.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Hertfordshire Council |
| Westfield Conservation Park - Battery Energy StorageLightrock Power Limited | Battery | 99 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: North Hertfordshire Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 11 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 East Hertfordshire 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.