CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Richmond and Northallerton
Richmond and Northallerton has 111 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 40,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,947 homes.
Ranks 58 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mowbray Battery Energy Storage StationMowbray Energy Park Limited | Battery | 1,000 MW | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref ZB24/02455/HYB |
| South Lowfields FarmLightsource BP | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 19/01882/FUL |
| Os Field 6800 Fence Dike Lane - Solar FarmLightrock Power Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01362/FUL |
| Brompton Solar Farm - Solar FarmEnergyline Limited | Solar | 39 MW14,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ZD25/00038/FULL |
| Darlington Road, Skeeby - Battery Energy StorageAtrato Onsite Energy / Harmony Energy | Battery | 35 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref ZD23/00342/FULL |
| East Cowton Solar FarmGreen Nation Solar Energy | Solar | 31 MW11,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref ZB25/01134/FUL |
| Tunstall & East Appleton Solar Farm - Solar FarmEnviromena | Solar | 24 MW8,500 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref ZD25/00369/FULL |
| Cross Rein Bank Solar Farm - Solar FarmPS Renewables Limited | Solar | 19 MW6,900 homes | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref ZB25/00887/FUL |
| Broken Scar Water Treatment Works Solar FarmNorthumbrian Water Limited | Solar | 9 MW3,300 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00041/FULL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond and Northallerton | 111 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| Scarborough and Whitby | 32 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Thirsk and Malton | 7.2 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
| Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | 50 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Stockton West | 161 MW | 36 MW | not visible |
| Darlington | 84 MW | 6.2 MW | not visible |
Stockton West next door has 161 MW waiting, more than Richmond and Northallerton's 111 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.