CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Blaydon and Consett
Blaydon and Consett has 6.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,400 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,737 homes.
Ranks 246 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newburn Bridge Road - Battery Storage FacilityThe Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited | Battery | 100 MW |
Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Greenhead Energy ParkExagen | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Waiting 2.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Gateshead Council |
| Hownsgill Energy FacilityProject Genesis Limited | EfW Incineration | 15 MW |
Refused by County Durham Council in 2023Who can move it: the planning appeal inspector |
What else is in the briefing
- All 6 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 Blaydon and Consett 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.