CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Penrith and Solway
Penrith and Solway has 4.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,700 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 43,873 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 267 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Farm, Aspatria - Battery Storage FacilityNet Zero Seventeen Limited | Battery | 50 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| High Rigg Solar Farm - Solar PanelsNoventum Power Limited | Solar | 11,000 homes 30 MW |
Refused by Westmorland and Furness Council in 2026Who can move it: Westmorland and Furness Council |
| Ewanrigg Farmhouse, Ewanrigg - Solar FarmAnesco Limited | Solar | 4,700 homes 13 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 7 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 Penrith and Solway 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.