CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Shipley
Shipley has 3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,100 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,543 homes.
Ranks 297 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lane Side - Energy StorageNet Zero Twenty Three Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/04720/MAF |
| Marston House, Otley Road - Solar PanelsEden Sustainable Limited | Solar | 2.5 MW900 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00881/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shipley | 3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bradford East | 0.6 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
| Leeds North West | 1.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Halifax | 0.2 MW | 18 MW | not visible |
| Bradford West | 2.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Keighley and Ilkley | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Shipley 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
- 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.