Hartlepool
Hartlepool has 51 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 19,000 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,930 homes.
Ranks 126 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worset Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemClearstone Energy | Battery | 200 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref H/2022/0263 |
| Whelley Hill Farm, Worset Lane - Battery Energy StorageReliance Energy Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref H/2022/0459 |
| Worset Lane - Solar FarmCanadian Solar UK | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref H/2020/0175 |
| High Barnes Farm, Coal Lane - Solar FarmEnviromena Project Management UK Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref H/2024/0180 |
| Graythorpe Energy CentreGraythorp Energy | EfW Incineration | 50 MW | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref H/2019/0275 |
| High Barnes Farm, Coal Lane - Battery StorageEnviromena Project Management UK Limited | Battery | 25 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref H/2024/0180 |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartlepool | 51 MW | 28 MW | not visible |
| Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor | 47 MW | 45 MW | not visible |
| Easington | 102 MW | 33 MW | not visible |
| Stockton North | 5.1 MW | 8 MW | not visible |
Easington next door has 102 MW waiting, more than Hartlepool's 51 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.