CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Scarborough and Whitby
Scarborough and Whitby has 32 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 12,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,602 homes.
Ranks 170 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastgate House Farm, Seamer - Solar FarmVoltalia UK | Solar | 32 MW12,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/01919/FL |
| Carr House Farm, East Heslerton - Solar FarmRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Solar | 24 MW8,500 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ZF24/00191/FL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Richmond and Northallerton | 111 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
Richmond and Northallerton next door has 111 MW waiting, more than Scarborough and Whitby's 32 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.