CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Barnsley North
Barnsley North has 5.1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,800 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,993 homes.
Ranks 262 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine Lane, Grimethorpe - Solar FarmEnviromena | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Waiting 1.5 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Barnsley Council |
| Park Springs, Long Royd - Solar PanelsLeggett & Platt Barnsley | Solar | 1,100 homes 3.1 MW |
Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Lundwood, Sewage Works - Solar ArrayDowning Energy Development Company Limited | Solar | 500 homes 1.3 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 3 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How Barnsley North compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.