CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Leeds West and Pudsey
Leeds West and Pudsey has 1.1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 400 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,217 homes.
Ranks 413 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redcote Lane, Armley - Battery Storage FacilityCambridge Power Limited | Battery | 60 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/05849/FU |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds West and Pudsey | 1.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leeds South West and Morley | 0.7 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Bradford South | 2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leeds South | 4.7 MW | 0.5 MW | not visible |
| Bradford East | 0.6 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
| Leeds Central and Headingley | 1.5 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
Leeds South next door has 4.7 MW waiting, more than Leeds West and Pudsey's 1.1 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.