CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Jarrow and Gateshead East
Jarrow and Gateshead East has 5 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,695 homes.
Ranks 263 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church Bank - Battery Storage SystemAMG Energy | Battery | 100 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: South Tyneside Council · planning ref 250408 |
| West Boldon Substation - Battery Energy StorageWhirlwind Energy Storage Limited | Battery | 60 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ST/0486/23/FUL |
| NCL1, Follingsby Lane - Solar PanelsZestec Asset Management | Solar | 3.9 MW1,400 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/23/00115/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jarrow and Gateshead East | 5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Washington and Gateshead South | 26 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Gateshead Central and Whickham | 3.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| South Shields | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Washington and Gateshead South next door has 26 MW waiting, more than Jarrow and Gateshead East's 5 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.