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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 |
| Backworth Lane, Backworth - Solar FarmNorthumberland Estates | Solar | 10,000 homes 28 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Seghill Household Waste Recovery Centre -Solar PanelSuez Recycling and Recovery UK Limited | Solar | 2,100 homes 5.8 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Northumberland Council |
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 Cramlington and Killingworth 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
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.