Penistone and Stocksbridge
Penistone and Stocksbridge has 26 MW of renewables running, enough for 23,000 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. 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, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,283 homes. There is also 26 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tofts Lane, Hunshelf - Battery StorageHarmony HS (JV) Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2023/0322 |
| Yarra Industrial Estate, Loicher Lane - Battery StorageEcclesfield Power Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/03914/FUL |
| Sherwin Williams Diversified Brands, Thorncliffe Road - Solar PanelsSherwin Williams | Solar | 1.2 MW400 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Sheffield Council · planning ref 26/00980/PVPN |
| Hazlehead Wind Farm BatteryBanks Renewables | Battery | 1 MW | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2020/0242 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penistone and Stocksbridge | 0 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
| High Peak | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Rotherham | 0.5 MW | 2.6 MW | not visible |
| Rawmarsh and Conisbrough | 2.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sheffield Hallam | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough next door has 2.2 MW waiting, more than Penistone and Stocksbridge's 0 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.