CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Wakefield and Rothwell
Wakefield and Rothwell has 3.4 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,200 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,225 homes.
Ranks 289 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westfield Road, Carlton - Battery StorageFirma Vogt Solar Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/06404/FU |
| Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Centre - Battery StoragePhoenix Medical Supplies | Battery | 3.4 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02235/FUL |
| Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Centre - Solar PanelsPhoenix Medical Supplies | Solar | 3.2 MW1,200 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02235/FUL |
| Headways, Unit 3 - Solar PanelsHarvest Green Developments | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01632/SPN |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wakefield and Rothwell | 3.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Ossett and Denby Dale | 52 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Normanton and Hemsworth | 3.7 MW | 2.4 MW | not visible |
| Leeds South West and Morley | 0.7 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Leeds South | 4.7 MW | 0.5 MW | not visible |
| Leeds East | 6.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Ossett and Denby Dale next door has 52 MW waiting, more than Wakefield and Rothwell's 3.4 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.