CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Gateshead Central and Whickham
Gateshead Central and Whickham has 3.4 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,200 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,309 homes.
Ranks 290 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albany Road - Solar ArraySolar Advanced Systems Limited T A Sas Energy | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/21/01206/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateshead Central and Whickham | 3.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| North Durham | 0.9 MW | 28 MW | not visible |
| Washington and Gateshead South | 26 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Blaydon and Consett | 6.6 MW | 0.4 MW | not visible |
| Jarrow and Gateshead East | 5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Washington and Gateshead South next door has 26 MW waiting, more than Gateshead Central and Whickham's 3.4 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.