Cramlington and Killingworth
Cramlington and Killingworth has 31 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 11,000 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,055 homes.
Ranks 174 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low Horton - Battery Energy Storage SystemBluefield Renewable Developments Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/02605/RENE |
| Backworth Lane, Backworth - Solar FarmNorthumberland Estates | Solar | 28 MW10,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02106/FUL |
| Seghill Household Waste Recovery Centre - Solar PanelsSuez Recycling and Recovery UK Limited | Solar | 5.8 MW2,100 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Northumberland Council · planning ref 25/04321/RENE |
| Seghill Household Waste Recovery Centre -Solar PanelsSuez Recycling and Recovery UK Limited | Solar | 5.8 MW2,100 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Northumberland Council · planning ref 25/04321/RENE |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cramlington and Killingworth | 31 MW | 4 MW | not visible |
| Hexham | 23 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | 2.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Newcastle upon Tyne North | 2.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Tynemouth | 2.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Blyth and Ashington | 150 MW | 32 MW | not visible |
Blyth and Ashington next door has 150 MW waiting, more than Cramlington and Killingworth's 31 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- 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
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.