Stockton West
Stockton West has 161 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 58,000 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, £3.5m across the constituency's 38,074 homes. There is also 22 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 30 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Byers Gill Solar FarmJBM Solar Projects Limited | Solar | 180 MW65,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EN010139 |
| The Carrs - Meadow Farm Energy storage facilityBayWa r.e. | Battery | 57 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/0752/FUL |
| Gately Moor Reservoir, Redmarshall - Solar Farm & Battery StorageCanadian Solar & Novergy | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/1499/FUL |
| Long Pasture Farm, Little Stainton - Solar FarmElectric Works | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01329/FUL |
| California Farm - Solar Farm & Battery StorageInfinis Solar Developments Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/1511/FUL |
| Long Pasture Farm, Little Stainton - Solar FarmElectric Works | Battery | 40 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/01329/FUL |
| Letch Lane - Solar FarmAnesco Limited | Solar | 11 MW3,900 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/2290/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockton West | 161 MW | 36 MW | not visible |
| Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | 50 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Middlesbrough and Thornaby East | 0.5 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Richmond and Northallerton | 111 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| Darlington | 84 MW | 6.2 MW | not visible |
| Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor | 47 MW | 45 MW | not visible |
Stockton West 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
- 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.