CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP

Penistone and Stocksbridge

MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Labour) England Data to July 2026

Penistone and Stocksbridge has 26 MW of renewables running, enough for 23,000 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, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,283 homes. There is also 26 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.

Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Tofts Lane, Hunshelf - Battery StorageHarmony HS (JV) Limited Battery
40 MW
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company
Yarra Industrial Estate, Loicher Lane - Battery StorEcclesfield Power Limited Battery
20 MW
Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company
Sherwin Williams Diversified Brands, Thorncliffe RoaSherwin Williams Solar 400 homes
1.2 MW
Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Sheffield Council

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