CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP

Bridlington and The Wolds

MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative) England Data to July 2026

Bridlington and The Wolds has 199 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 78,000 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,369 homes. There is also 60 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.

Ranks 21 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Sunderlandwick Solar FarmElgin Energy EsCo Limited Solar 18,000 homes
50 MW
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company
Scurf Dyke - Solar FarmBayWa r.e. UK Limited Solar 18,000 homes
50 MW
Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company
Back Lane, Skerne - Solar Farm & Battery StorageBayWa r.e. UK Limited Solar 16,000 homes
45 MW
Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company

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