CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
South Cotswolds
South Cotswolds has 194 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 70,000 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,511 homes.
Ranks 22 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lime Down - Battery StorageIsland Green Power | Battery | 500 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects) |
| Lime Down - Solar ProjectIsland Green Power | Solar | 182,000 homes 500 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects) |
| Fairholme, Minety - Battery StoragePelagic Energy | Battery | 50 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2025, 1 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid |
What else is in the briefing
- All 22 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 South Cotswolds 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.