CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
South Shields
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 developer | Tech | Size | Why 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
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Shields | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sunderland Central | 1.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Washington and Gateshead South | 26 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Jarrow and Gateshead East | 5 MW | 0 MW | not 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
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.