Stockton North
Stockton North has 5.1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,900 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,758 homes.
Ranks 260 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cowpen Bewley, Seal Sands Link Road - Battery Energy StorageHarmony Energy Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Waiting 18 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Stockton-on-Tees Council · planning ref 24/2141/FUL |
| Belasis Avenue - Battery StorageStory Construction Limited | Battery | 75 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/1634/FUL |
| Billingham Biomass Power StationEQTEC (Gaia Power) | Biomass (dedicated) | 50 MW | Approved 17 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 09/1562/EIS |
| Port Clarence Biomass PlantGlennmont Partners | Biomass (dedicated) | 40 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref S/CON/0038/10/P |
| Bowesfield Flexible Energy ParkBanks Group | Battery | 8 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/2721/FUL |
| Outfitting Facility, Haverton Hill Road - Hydrogen Production FacilityProtium Green Hydrogen Supply Limited | Hydrogen | 5 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Stockton-on-Tees Council · planning ref 25/2373/FUL |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockton North | 5.1 MW | 8 MW | not visible |
| Middlesbrough and Thornaby East | 0.5 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Stockton West | 161 MW | 36 MW | not visible |
| Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor | 47 MW | 45 MW | not visible |
| Hartlepool | 51 MW | 28 MW | not visible |
Stockton West next door has 161 MW waiting, more than Stockton North's 5.1 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.