Beverley and Holderness
Beverley and Holderness has 218 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 79,000 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 40,012 homes. There is also 120 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 17 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peartree Hill Solar FarmJBM Solar / RWE | Solar | 320 MW116,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010157 |
| Staithes Road, Saltend -Battery Energy Storage SystemSFEL One Limited | Battery | 240 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/03387/STPLF |
| Kingston International Business Park - Battery Energy Storage SystemStory Contracting Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/02654/STPLF |
| H2H, Saltend Chemicals Park, Saltend Lane - Humber Green Hydrogen FacilityMeld Energy | Hydrogen | 100 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00012/STOUT |
| Turf Carr Solar FarmAnesco Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02775/STPLF |
| Kenley Solar FarmBoom Power Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01208/STPLF |
| Neat Marsh North, Neat Marsh Road - Solar FarmNeat Marsh Solar Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/01811/STPLF |
| Carr Lane, Tickton - Solar FarmAlbanwise Synergy Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/03648/STPLF |
| Froghall Farm, Wyton Road - Solar Farm & Battery Energy StorageGAM Capital Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00760/STPLFE |
| Kenley House Farm, Ferry Road - Solar FarmLighthouse Development Consulting | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: East Riding of Yorkshire Council · planning ref 25/02275/STPLF |
| Carr House Farm, Drove Lane - Solar PanelsPrivate Developer | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01533/PLF |
| Harbour Farm - Solar FarmGrupotec | Solar | 42 MW15,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: East Riding of Yorkshire Council · planning ref 25/02255/STPLFE |
Plus 9 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beverley and Holderness | 218 MW | 125 MW | not visible |
| Kingston upon Hull East | 5.6 MW | 8 MW | not visible |
| Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham | 51 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Bridlington and The Wolds | 199 MW | 60 MW | not visible |
| Goole and Pocklington | 63 MW | 150 MW | not visible |
Beverley and Holderness has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.