CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Redcar
Redcar has 50 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,180 homes.
Ranks 139 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tesside GigaPark - Battery Energy Storage SystemNatPower UK (NP SPV 27 Limited) | Battery | 1,000 MW | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Redcar and Cleveland Council · planning ref R/2026/0364/CL |
| Old Hall Farm, Lackenby - BESSLackenby Energy Limited | Battery | 244 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Redcar and Cleveland Council · planning ref R/2025/0500/FFM |
| Wilton International, Greystones Road - Phase 1Sembcorp Utilities (UK) Limited | Battery | 150 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref R/2023/0545/CL |
| Greystones Road, Grangetown - Battery Energy Storage SystemSembcorp Utilities UK Limited | Battery | 60 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref R/2021/0888/CL |
| Wilton Industrial, Plot 1C - Electrolytic Hydrogen FacilityMorGen Energy Limited | Hydrogen | 60 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Redcar and Cleveland Council · planning ref R/2025/0712/FFM |
| Redcar Energy CentreRedcar Holdings | EfW Incineration | 50 MW | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref R/2020/0411/FFM |
| Yearby Village - Tees Solar FarmEDF Energy Renewables | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref R/2023/0002/FFM |
| Grangetown Prairie - Energy Recovery Facility, Option 1Viridor Waste Management Limited | EfW Incineration | 36 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref R/2023/0246/RMM |
| Wilton International, Teesside - Green Hydrogen PlantEDF Energy Renewables | Hydrogen | 8 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref R/2025/0002/CL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redcar | 50 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | 50 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Middlesbrough and Thornaby East | 0.5 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
Redcar has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.