CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Huddersfield
Huddersfield has 5.1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.3m across the constituency's 46,267 homes.
Ranks 261 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aflex Hose, Dyson Wood Way - olar PanelsWatson Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions | Solar | 1.1 MW400 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2024/CLASS J/91024/W |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huddersfield | 5.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Ossett and Denby Dale | 52 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Colne Valley | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Dewsbury and Batley | 50 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Spen Valley | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Calder Valley | 1.4 MW | 12 MW | not visible |
Ossett and Denby Dale next door has 52 MW waiting, more than Huddersfield's 5.1 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.