CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
North Cornwall
North Cornwall has 10 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 4,200 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,136 homes. There is also 51 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 229 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tregath Business Park Station Road - Geothermal DeveGeothermal Engineering Limited | Geothermal | 49 MW |
Refused by Cornwall Council in 2025Who can move it: Cornwall Council |
| Higher Witheven SolarDowning Renewables | Solar | 15,000 homes 42 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Bears Down Wind FarmClean Earth Energy Limited | Onshore wind | 20,000 homes 22 MW |
Waiting 2.5 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Cornwall Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 12 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 North Cornwall 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.