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South Shields

MP: Emma Lewell (Labour) England Data to July 2026

South Shields has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,549 homes.

Ranks 460 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
E/o the Academy Of Light, Sunderland Road - Solar FarmSunderland AFC Solar 40 MW15,000 homes Waiting 2.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: South Tyneside Council · planning ref ST/0357/24/FUL

Compared with its neighbours

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
South Shields 0.7 MW0 MWnot visible
Sunderland Central 1.1 MW0 MWnot visible
Washington and Gateshead South 26 MW16 MWnot visible
Jarrow and Gateshead East 5 MW0 MWnot visible

Washington and Gateshead South next door has 26 MW waiting, more than South Shields's 0.7 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
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