Beverley and Holderness
Beverley and Holderness has 218 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 79,000 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,012 homes. There is also 120 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 17 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peartree Hill Solar FarmJBM Solar / RWE | Solar | 116,000 homes 320 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Staithes Road, Saltend -Battery Energy Storage SysteSFEL One Limited | Battery | 240 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Kingston International Business Park - Battery EnergStory Contracting Limited | Battery | 200 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 21 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 Beverley and Holderness compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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