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No.314 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Catherine McKinnell (Labour) England

Newcastle upon Tyne North

Newcastle upon Tyne North has 2.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,290 homes.

Not visible
here
No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency, so no switch-off payments show here in national data. Smaller wind farms on the local grid can still be paid to switch off — invisibly. The £ figure for this seat is a floor, not a zero.
how we worked this out
2.7 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,000 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning.
10 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£4.2m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 45,290 households in a year between them — £92 each, about 51 days of one home's electricity.
The £92 per household is a national figure — identical in every GB seat. Only the seat total varies, with the number of households · NESO · how we worked this out

The waiting list

6 of 10 waiting projects · years since approval
YHN House, Benton Park Road- Solar Photovoltaic Panels 0.3 MW
4.6 YRS
Newington Road West Depot - Solar Panels 0.2 MW
4.5 YRS
Corchester Walk - Solar Photovoltaic Panels & Air Sourced Heat Pumps 0.2 MW
4.2 YRS
Royal Grammar School, Eskdale Terrace - Solar Panels 0.5 MW
3.4 YRS
David Lloyd Leisure, Castles Farm Road - Solar Panels 0.3 MW
3.0 YRS
Welford Day Centre, Jubilee Road - Solar panels 0.2 MW
2.9 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Gosforth Academy, Knightsbridge - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2023-092.9 yrs
Royal Grammar School, Eskdale Terrace - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2023-033.4 yrs
David Lloyd Leisure, Castles Farm Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2023-073.0 yrs
YHN House, Benton Park Road- Solar Photovoltaic PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2021-124.6 yrs
Newington Road West Depot - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2022-024.5 yrs
Brunton First School, Roseden Way - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2023-082.9 yrs
Corchester Walk - Solar Photovoltaic Panels & Air Sourced Heat PumpsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2022-054.2 yrs
Welford Day Centre, Jubilee Road - Solar panelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2023-082.9 yrs
The Kenton Centre - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2024-052.2 yrs
Grange First School, Norham Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.1 MW2023-082.9 yrs

Plus 3 more approved within the last two years.

What this page does not show

Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.

Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.

Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Catherine McKinnell said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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