CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Barnsley South
Barnsley South has 2 MW of renewables running, enough for 600 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.3m across the constituency's 46,649 homes.
Ranks 481 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houghton MainPeel Environmental | EfW Incineration | 20 MW | Approved 11 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2015/0137 |
| Cranswick Convenience Foods, Valley Park Industrial Estate - Solar PanelsCranswick Convenience Foods | Solar | 2.2 MW800 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2025/1085 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsley South | 0.5 MW | 1.7 MW | not visible |
| Rawmarsh and Conisbrough | 2.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Penistone and Stocksbridge | 0 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
| Barnsley North | 5.1 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
| Doncaster North | 3.8 MW | 21 MW | not visible |
Barnsley North next door has 5.1 MW waiting, more than Barnsley South's 0.5 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
- 2 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.