Harrogate and Knaresborough: renewable energy

Harrogate and Knaresborough has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 45,004 homes.

Ranks 475 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developer	Tech	Size	Why it is stuck
Low Moor Lane, Scotton - Battery Energy Storage SystemHarmony Energy Limited	Battery	200 MW	Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref 25/04454/FULMAJ
Wormald Green Solar FarmHarmony Energy Limited	Solar	43 MW16,000 homes	Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ZC23/04361/EIAMAJ
Jenny Field DriveEnstor Power	Battery	5 MW	Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 17/04644/FUL

Compared with its neighbours

Constituency	Approved, not built	Running	Paid to switch off
Harrogate and Knaresborough	0.6 MW	0 MW	not visible
Wetherby and Easingwold	2.2 MW	40 MW	not visible
Skipton and Ripon	63 MW	29 MW	not visible

Skipton and Ripon next door has 63 MW waiting, more than Harrogate and Knaresborough's 0.6 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.