CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Leeds East
Leeds East has 6.4 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,908 homes.
Ranks 248 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skelton Grange Landfill Site, Pontefract Lane - Solar FarmBiffa Waste Services Limited | Solar | 4.4 MW1,600 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/07964/FU |
| Amazon Uk, Skelton Moor Road - Solar PanelsZestec Group | Solar | 1.7 MW600 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/05817/FU |
| Coal Road, Whinmoor - Solar PanelsUnilever UK (Leeds) | Solar | 1.6 MW600 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/03574/DPD |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds East | 6.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wakefield and Rothwell | 3.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leeds South | 4.7 MW | 0.5 MW | not visible |
| Leeds Central and Headingley | 1.5 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Selby | 190 MW | 49 MW | not visible |
| Wetherby and Easingwold | 2.2 MW | 40 MW | not visible |
Selby next door has 190 MW waiting, more than Leeds East's 6.4 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.