Stroud
Stroud has 4 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,400 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 41,920 homes. A 100 MW battery was refused planning here in 2023; while discharging it could have supplied about 350,000 homes.
Ranks 276 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hook Street - Energy Storage CompoundImmersa | Battery | 100 MW | Refused by Stroud Council in 2023Who can move it: Stroud Council · planning ref S.21/3064/FUL |
| Worlds End Solar FarmBritish Solar Renewables | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 5.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Stroud Council · planning ref S.21/1210/FUL |
| Woodlands Farm, Clapton - Ground Mounted Solar ParkEcotricity Generation Limited | Solar | 36 MW13,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S.22/1955/FUL |
| Kingston Road, Slimbridge - Battery StorageRelay Slimbridge Limited | Battery | 36 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S.23/1593/FUL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud | 4 MW | 51 MW | not visible |
| South Cotswolds | 194 MW | 224 MW | not visible |
| North Cotswolds | 55 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Thornbury and Yate | 203 MW | 147 MW | not visible |
Thornbury and Yate next door has 203 MW waiting, more than Stroud's 4 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- 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
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.