CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough has 2.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,156 homes.
Ranks 329 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swangate Project - Energy Storage SystemEconergy International Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2017/1132 |
| West Melton Electricity Substation - Energy Storage SystemBrampton Energy Storage Limited | Battery | 26 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2022/0853 |
| Firsby Lane, Hooton Roberts - Solar PanelsILOS | Solar | 14 MW4,900 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Rotherham Council · planning ref RB2026/0615 |
| Meadows Road, Manvers - Solar ArrayHyperion Zero Limited | Solar | 2.1 MW800 homes | Waiting 4.5 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rotherham Council · planning ref RB2022/0252 |
| Brookfields Park, Brookfields Drive - Solar PV PanelsNext Distribution Limited | Solar | 1.1 MW400 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2024/0617 |
| Brookfields Park, Brookfields Drive - Solar PV PanelsNext Distribution Limited | Solar | 1.1 MW400 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2024/0581 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rawmarsh and Conisbrough | 2.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Rother Valley | 49 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| Rotherham | 0.5 MW | 2.6 MW | not visible |
| Doncaster Central | 62 MW | 4.2 MW | not visible |
| Penistone and Stocksbridge | 0 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
| Barnsley South | 0.5 MW | 1.7 MW | not visible |
Doncaster Central next door has 62 MW waiting, more than Rawmarsh and Conisbrough's 2.2 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.