Skipton and Ripon
Skipton and Ripon has 63 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 23,000 homes. 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,731 homes.
Ranks 106 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kellingley Farm, Stocking Lane - Battery Energy StorageNewton Energi Limited | Battery | 240 MW | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref ZG2025/0718/FULM |
| New Oaks, Station Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemBrockwell Energy Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the planning authority · planning ref ZG2025/0603/FULM |
| Cayton Solar farmElgin Energy | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 19/02259/FULMAJ |
| Juniper Farm, Main Street - Solar FarmABEI Energy Group | Solar | 19 MW6,800 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref 25/02219/FULMAJ |
| Station Lane, South StainleyBoultbee Brooks Renewable Energy | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/04423/FULMAJ |
| Juniper Farm, Main Street - BESSABEI Energy Group | Battery | 10 MW | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref 25/02219/FULMAJ |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skipton and Ripon | 63 MW | 29 MW | not visible |
| Wetherby and Easingwold | 2.2 MW | 40 MW | not visible |
| Thirsk and Malton | 7.2 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
| Leeds North West | 1.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Harrogate and Knaresborough | 0.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Richmond and Northallerton | 111 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
Richmond and Northallerton next door has 111 MW waiting, more than Skipton and Ripon's 63 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.