CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Reading West and Mid Berkshire
Reading West and Mid Berkshire has 32 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, £3.5m across the constituency's 37,931 homes.
Ranks 172 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading QuarryJ Mould (Reading) | EfW Incineration | 40 MW |
Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Bloomfield Hatch Farm - Solar Farm & BatteryHorizon Power & Energy Limited | Solar | 9,400 homes 26 MW |
Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Bath Road, Grange Lane - Solar Photovoltaic ArrayGrundon Waste Management Limited | Solar | 4,400 homes 12 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 6 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 Reading West and Mid Berkshire 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.