CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Selby
Selby has 190 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 69,000 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 43,292 homes. There is also 34 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 23 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eggborough Battery Energy Storage SystemSSE Renewables Ireland Limited | Battery | 550 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2032, 7 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid |
| Light Valley Solar, Selby Road - Solar FarmLight Valley Solar Limited ( Island Green Powe | Solar | 182,000 homes 500 MW |
Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects) |
| Eggborough Power Station, Selby Road - Battery StoraEggborough Power Limited | Battery | 500 MW |
Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 29 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 Selby 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.