CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Darlington
Darlington has 84 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 31,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,411 homes.
Ranks 76 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burtree Lane - Solar farmDarlington Borough Council / Aura Power Solar | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/00213/FUL |
| Whinfield Solar FarmAlpha Real Capital LLP | Solar | 33 MW12,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DM/21/02816/FPA |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darlington | 84 MW | 6.2 MW | not visible |
| Richmond and Northallerton | 111 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| Stockton West | 161 MW | 36 MW | not visible |
| Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor | 47 MW | 45 MW | not visible |
| Bishop Auckland | 52 MW | 8 MW | not visible |
Stockton West next door has 161 MW waiting, more than Darlington's 84 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.