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Blaydon and Consett
Blaydon and Consett has 6.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,400 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,737 homes.
Ranks 246 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newburn Bridge Road - Battery Storage FacilityThe Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/21/00922/FUL |
| Greenhead Energy ParkExagen | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 2.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Gateshead Council · planning ref DC/24/00429/FUL |
| Hownsgill Energy FacilityProject Genesis Limited | EfW Incineration | 15 MW | Refused by County Durham Council in 2023Who can move it: the planning appeal inspector · planning ref DM/20/03267/WAS |
| Greenhead Energy ParkExagen | Battery | 13 MW | Waiting 2.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Gateshead Council · planning ref DC/24/00429/FUL |
| Hownsgill Industrial ParkProject Genesis | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref DM/15/02364/FPA |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blaydon and Consett | 6.6 MW | 0.4 MW | not visible |
| North Durham | 0.9 MW | 28 MW | not visible |
| Hexham | 23 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Gateshead Central and Whickham | 3.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Hexham next door has 23 MW waiting, more than Blaydon and Consett's 6.6 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.