CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Hexham
Hexham has 23 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 8,200 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,294 homes. There is also 50 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 189 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newburn BESS - Battery Energy Storage SystemFig Power | Battery | 90 MW |
Waiting 2.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Newcastle upon Tyne Council |
| Fourstones -Battery Energy StorageMespil Solar Energy | Battery | 60 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Northumberland Council |
| Fourstones - Solar ParkMespil Solar Energy | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Northumberland Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 11 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 Hexham 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.