CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Halifax
Halifax has 18 MW of renewables running, enough for 16,000 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,628 homes.
Ranks 550 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holmfield Battery StorageMasdar Arlington Energy | Battery | 500 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Stainland Road, Salterhebble - Battery Storage FacilWhirlwind Energy Storage Limited | Battery | 25 MW |
Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 2 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 Halifax 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.