Carlisle

Carlisle has 70 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 25,000 homes. No wind farm here is paid to switch off. Almost every pound of that money goes to wind farms in Scotland, where there is not enough wire capacity to carry the power south. The cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay too: about £92 a year per household, £4.4m across the constituency's 47,449 homes. There is also 44 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it. A 340 MW battery was refused planning here in 2026; while discharging it could have supplied about 1,191,000 homes.

Ranks 96 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

What else is in the briefing

• All 10 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 Carlisle 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