Hyndburn
Hyndburn has 12 MW of clean power (mostly onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 8,600 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,738 homes. There is also 24 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 217 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knuzden Moss Farm, Oswaldtwistle - Battery Energy Storage SystemRoot Power (North) Limited | Battery | 60 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 11/24/0389 |
| Ramsclough Farm, Haslingden Old Road - Solar FarmAbei Energy Limited | Solar | 26 MW9,600 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Hyndburn Council · planning ref 11/26/0015 |
| Hyndburn Wind Farm ExtensionEnergiekontor UK | Onshore wind | 8.2 MW7,200 homes | Approved 11 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 11/14/0244 |
| Coach Road Meadow - Solar FarmProspects Community Energy Limited | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 11/23/0180 |
| Paragon Works, Rising Bridge Road - Solar FarmLocogen Limited | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2025/0025 |
| Accrington and Rossendale College, Sandy Lane - Battery StorageNelson & Colne College | Battery | 1 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 11/23/0412 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyndburn | 12 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| Rossendale and Darwen | 0.3 MW | 75 MW | not visible |
| Blackburn | 0 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| Burnley | 1 MW | 38 MW | not visible |
| Pendle and Clitheroe | 2.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Ribble Valley | 1.3 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
Hyndburn has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.