CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Rayleigh and Wickford
Rayleigh and Wickford has 80 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 29,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,933 homes.
Ranks 85 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairlawns Farm, Chelmsford Road - Battery Energy StoGresham House Devco Pipeline | Battery | 480 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Rayleigh Spur Roundabout, Benfleet - Battery Energy Renewable Energy Systems RES ltd (Beaufort) | Battery | 150 MW |
Waiting 1.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Basildon Council |
| South Fambridge Hall - Solar farm & Battery storageBritish Solar Renewables / BayWa r.e. UK Limit | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
What else is in the briefing
- All 5 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 Rayleigh and Wickford 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.