CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Dewsbury and Batley
Dewsbury and Batley has 50 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.5m across the constituency's 37,698 homes.
Ranks 141 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low Farm, Flockton - Solar Photovoltaic FarmDowning LLP | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2021/62/93644/E |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dewsbury and Batley | 50 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Ossett and Denby Dale | 52 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Huddersfield | 5.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Spen Valley | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leeds South West and Morley | 0.7 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
Ossett and Denby Dale next door has 52 MW waiting, more than Dewsbury and Batley's 50 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.