Goole and Pocklington
Goole and Pocklington has 63 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 27,000 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,355 homes. There is also 140 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 107 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornton Battery StorageGreenfield Energy Developments Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Still in the grid queue review — no firm connection date yetWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2035 · planning ref 25/01685/STPLF |
| East Yorkshire Solar FarmBoom Power | Solar | 400 MW145,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010143 |
| Ryedale Farm, Seaton Common Lane - Battery Energy StorageRPC Elmya Carnation Foxdale Limited | Battery | 300 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/01321/STPLF |
| Soay Solar Farm and Greener Grid ParkStatkraft Uk Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/04505/STPLF |
| Tara Melbourne Road, Thornton - Battery Energy Storage FacilityRewe 9 Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00852/STPLF |
| Soay Solar Farm and Greener Grid ParkStatkraft Uk Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/04505/STPLF |
| Market Weighton Road, Barlby - Solar Farm & Battery StorageQuintas Cleantech | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref ZG2024/1323/SCN |
| Melton Waste ParkTranswaste Recycling & Aggregates Limited | EfW Incineration | 22 MW | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 18/00703/CM |
| Market Weighton Road, Barlby - Solar Farm & Battery StorageQuintas Cleantech | Battery | 10 MW | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref ZG2024/1323/SCN |
| Rawcliffe Estate, Bridge Lane - Solar FarmEast Riding of Yorkshire Council (Goole Division) | Solar | 6 MW2,200 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01628/REG3 |
| Yorkshire Botanicals - Biomass BoilerYorkshire Botanicals Limited | Biomass (dedicated) | 5 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02745/PLF |
Plus 9 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goole and Pocklington | 63 MW | 150 MW | not visible |
| Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice | 1.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Beverley and Holderness | 218 MW | 125 MW | not visible |
| Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham | 51 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Bridlington and The Wolds | 199 MW | 60 MW | not visible |
| Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme | 83 MW | 146 MW | not visible |
Beverley and Holderness next door has 218 MW waiting, more than Goole and Pocklington's 63 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.