Rotherham
Rotherham has 3 MW of renewables running, enough for 2,300 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,916 homes.
Ranks 481 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitestone Solar FarmNet Zero One Ltd | Solar | 750 MW272,000 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects) · planning ref EN0110020 |
| Maltby Solar FarmInfinis Energy Services Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rotherham Council · planning ref 25/01554/FULM |
| Brinsworth Road, Brinsworth - Battery Energy storageRoot Power South Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Waiting 23 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rotherham Council · planning ref RB2024/1307 |
| Claire Court, Rawmarsh Road - Battery Energy Storage FacilityConrad Energy (Developments) Ii Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2023/0542 |
| Former Templeborough Steel WorksRolton Kilbride | Advanced Conversion Technologies | 23 MW | Approved 10 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref RB2016/0891 |
| Maltby Solar FarmInfinis Energy Services Limited | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rotherham Council · planning ref 25/01554/FULM |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rotherham | 0.5 MW | 2.6 MW | not visible |
| Rother Valley | 49 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| Rawmarsh and Conisbrough | 2.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sheffield South East | 6.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Penistone and Stocksbridge | 0 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
Rother Valley next door has 49 MW waiting, more than Rotherham's 0.5 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.