CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Pendle and Clitheroe
Pendle and Clitheroe has 2.4 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 900 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,323 homes.
Ranks 321 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walshaw House, Regent Street - Battery Energy StorageR B Business Park Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/0541/FUL |
| West Craven Business Park, West Craven Drive - Solar PanelsShawton Energy | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/0577/SPP |
| Nelson and colne college, Scotland RoadNelson & Colne College | Battery | 1 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/0056/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pendle and Clitheroe | 2.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Calder Valley | 1.4 MW | 12 MW | not visible |
| Keighley and Ilkley | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Skipton and Ripon | 63 MW | 29 MW | not visible |
| Hyndburn | 12 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| Burnley | 1 MW | 38 MW | not visible |
Skipton and Ripon next door has 63 MW waiting, more than Pendle and Clitheroe's 2.4 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.