Morecambe and Lunesdale
Morecambe and Lunesdale has 3.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,300 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 43,896 homes. There is also 25 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 287 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fanny House Farm, Bay Gateway - Battery StorageInnova Renewables | Battery | 940 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00749/FUL |
| Bay Gateway - Battery Storage FacilityEnergi Generation | Battery | 200 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00874/FUL |
| Heysham Energy Storage ProjectKona Energy Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01069/FUL |
| Hillside Farm, Lancaster Road - Battery StorageHamilton March | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01317/FUL |
| North Side Bay Gateway, Heysham - Battery Energy StorageCragside Energy Limited | Battery | 90 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01303/FUL |
| Lancaster Power Extension, Middleton Road - Energy Storage FacilityInfra Balance New Energy | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00839/FUL |
| Middleton Clean Energy PlantInfra Balance New Energy | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 18/01203/FUL |
| Caton Road, Lancaster - Battery Storage FacilityEnergi Generation 12 Limited | Battery | 25 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01351/FUL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morecambe and Lunesdale | 3.5 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Richmond and Northallerton | 111 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| Skipton and Ripon | 63 MW | 29 MW | not visible |
| Ribble Valley | 1.3 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Lancaster and Wyre | 45 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| Westmorland and Lonsdale | 5.3 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
Richmond and Northallerton next door has 111 MW waiting, more than Morecambe and Lunesdale's 3.5 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
- 3 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.