CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Normanton and Hemsworth
Normanton and Hemsworth has 3.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,504 homes.
Ranks 283 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neil Fox Way - Battery StorageHarmony Energy Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Waiting 4.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wakefield Council · planning ref 22/01460/FUL |
| Neil Fox Way - Battery StorageHarmony Energy Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Wakefield Council · planning ref X4725/W/25/3368025 |
| Cooksland Farm, Old Snydale -Battery Energy StorageYlem Energy Limited / Root Power | Battery | 50 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00838/FUL |
| Manor Farm, South Hiendley - Solar Photovoltaic FarmEnzygo Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00512/FUL |
| Kirkgate Lane, Felkirk - Solar ArrayKirkgate Lane Solar Farm Limited | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01900/FUL |
Plus 3 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normanton and Hemsworth | 3.7 MW | 2.4 MW | not visible |
| Barnsley North | 5.1 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
| Ossett and Denby Dale | 52 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wakefield and Rothwell | 3.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Doncaster North | 3.8 MW | 21 MW | not visible |
| Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley | 1.9 MW | 7.4 MW | not visible |
Ossett and Denby Dale next door has 52 MW waiting, more than Normanton and Hemsworth's 3.7 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.