CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Doncaster Central
Doncaster Central has 62 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 23,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.5m across the constituency's 49,026 homes.
Ranks 108 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mere Flats Solar FarmNextPower UK | Solar | 56 MW20,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01978/FULM |
| Cutts Bros, Wharf Road - Battery Storage FacilityNewton Energi Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00841/FUL |
| BH Energy Gap - Energy Recovery FacilityBH Energy Gap Limited | EfW Incineration | 34 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/01774/TIPA |
| Mere Flats Solar FarmNextPower UK | Battery | 16 MW | Waiting 3.9 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Doncaster Council · planning ref 22/01978/FULM |
| J3 Business Park - Battery Storage FacilityForepower Limited | Battery | 16 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01072/FUL |
| J3 Business Park - Battery Energy Storage FacilityForepower Limited | Battery | 10 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/02368/FUL |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doncaster Central | 62 MW | 4.2 MW | not visible |
| Bassetlaw | 114 MW | 85 MW | not visible |
| Rother Valley | 49 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| Rawmarsh and Conisbrough | 2.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme | 83 MW | 146 MW | not visible |
| Doncaster North | 3.8 MW | 21 MW | not visible |
Bassetlaw next door has 114 MW waiting, more than Doncaster Central's 62 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.