Thirsk and Malton
Thirsk and Malton has 7.2 MW of clean power (mostly solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 4,100 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 43,580 homes.
Ranks 241 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Third Energy UK Gas Limited - Battery Energy StorageThird Energy | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01220/FUL |
| Windmill Farm Solar Farm (Old Malton)Harmony Energy | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00046/MFULE |
| Stell Solar FarmEnviromena | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Yorkshire Council · planning ref ZB25/01246/FUL |
| Windmill Farm Solar Farm (Old Malton)Harmony Energy | Battery | 13 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00046/MFULE |
| Land to the South of Knapton Quarry Landfill SiteKnapton Green Energy (Tetragen and NCG Estates) / Third Energy | EfW Incineration | 9.9 MW | Approved 8 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref NY/2016/0194/ENV |
| Showfield LaneEnstor Energy | Battery | 5 MW | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 18/01288/FUL |
Plus 3 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thirsk and Malton | 7.2 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
| Bridlington and The Wolds | 199 MW | 60 MW | not visible |
| Scarborough and Whitby | 32 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Goole and Pocklington | 63 MW | 150 MW | not visible |
| York Outer | 42 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wetherby and Easingwold | 2.2 MW | 40 MW | not visible |
Bridlington and The Wolds next door has 199 MW waiting, more than Thirsk and Malton's 7.2 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.