CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
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.
Ranks 314 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benton Lane, Quorum Business Park - Solar PanelsShelborn Asset Management | Solar | 8 MW2,900 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: North Tyneside Council · planning ref 25/01018/FULM |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle upon Tyne North | 2.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Hexham | 23 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West | 3.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | 2.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Cramlington and Killingworth | 31 MW | 4 MW | not visible |
Cramlington and Killingworth next door has 31 MW waiting, more than Newcastle upon Tyne North's 2.7 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
- 2 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.