CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley has 1.9 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,132 homes.
Ranks 350 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Siniat, Kirkhaw Lane - Solar PV PanelsSiniat Limited | Solar | 3 MW1,100 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01954/SPN |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley | 1.9 MW | 7.4 MW | not visible |
| Normanton and Hemsworth | 3.7 MW | 2.4 MW | not visible |
| Wakefield and Rothwell | 3.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Selby | 190 MW | 49 MW | not visible |
Selby next door has 190 MW waiting, more than Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley's 1.9 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.