CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bradford West
Bradford West has 2.3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,290 homes.
Ranks 328 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford West, Harrop Lane, Wilsden - Battery Storage24 Power Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/05010/MAF |
| Peat Dykes Farm, Harrop Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemBrockwell Storage & Solar Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/02248/MAF |
| Old Allen Road, Wilsden - Battery Energy Storage SystemRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Bradford Council · planning ref 25/03275/MAF |
| Midland Road - Battery Energy StorageUnknown | Battery | 80 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/03888/FUL |
| Bradford West Substation (Harrop Edge Farm)UK Battery Storage | Battery | 50 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 18/03894/OUT |
| Stor Generation Plant - Battery StorageGreen Frog Power 214 Limited | Battery | 12 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/04887/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford West | 2.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bradford South | 2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bradford East | 0.6 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
| Halifax | 0.2 MW | 18 MW | not visible |
| Shipley | 3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Shipley next door has 3 MW waiting, more than Bradford West's 2.3 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.