Kingston upon Hull East
Kingston upon Hull East has 5.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,000 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 44,034 homes.
Ranks 254 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hull East Stor Generation Compound - Battery energy storageGreen Frog Power 214 Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/00631/FULL |
| Green Frog Power, Great Field Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemPulse Clean Energy | Battery | 20 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01214/FULL |
| Bericap, Oslo Road - Solar PanelsBericap UK Limited | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00953/FULL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston upon Hull East | 5.6 MW | 8 MW | not visible |
| Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice | 1.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Beverley and Holderness | 218 MW | 125 MW | not visible |
| Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham | 51 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
Beverley and Holderness next door has 218 MW waiting, more than Kingston upon Hull East's 5.6 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.