CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Leeds South
Leeds South has 4.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.9m across the constituency's 53,551 homes.
Ranks 265 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 Battery Storage FacilityCatalyst Capital LLP | Battery | 99 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/02628/FU |
| Skelton Grange – Energy Recovery FacilityScottish & Southern Energy Scottish Hydro Electric | EfW Incineration | 49 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 11/03705/FU |
| Premier Farnell, Unit 3 - Solar PanelsABRDN (Investments Trust/Standard Life) | Solar | 2.3 MW800 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01196/DPD |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds South | 4.7 MW | 0.5 MW | not visible |
| Wakefield and Rothwell | 3.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leeds South West and Morley | 0.7 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Leeds East | 6.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leeds West and Pudsey | 1.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leeds Central and Headingley | 1.5 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
Leeds East next door has 6.4 MW waiting, more than Leeds South's 4.7 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.