Bridlington and The Wolds
Bridlington and The Wolds has 199 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 78,000 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,369 homes. There is also 60 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 21 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunderlandwick Solar FarmElgin Energy EsCo Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02460/STPLF |
| Scurf Dyke - Solar FarmBayWa r.e. UK Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 19/04321/STPLF |
| Back Lane, Skerne - Solar Farm & Battery StorageBayWa r.e. UK Limited | Solar | 45 MW16,000 homes | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/01962/STPLF |
| Old Chalk Pit, West Back Side - Three Oaks Renewable ParkRidge Clean Energy Limited | Solar | 39 MW14,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02777/STPLF |
| Back Lane, Skerne - Solar Farm & Battery StorageBayWa r.e. UK Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/01962/STPLF |
| Gameslack FarmEast Yorkshire Power | Biomass (dedicated) | 18 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 15/02132/STREM |
| CarnabyFCC Environment | Onshore wind | 6 MW5,200 homes | Approved 14 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 10/04753/STPLFE |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridlington and The Wolds | 199 MW | 60 MW | not visible |
| Beverley and Holderness | 218 MW | 125 MW | not visible |
| Goole and Pocklington | 63 MW | 150 MW | not visible |
| Thirsk and Malton | 7.2 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
Beverley and Holderness next door has 218 MW waiting, more than Bridlington and The Wolds's 199 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.