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South Shields

MP: Emma Lewell (Labour) England Data to July 2026

South Shields has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,549 homes.

Ranks 460 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
E/o the Academy Of Light, Sunderland Road - Solar FaSunderland AFC Solar 15,000 homes
40 MW
Waiting 2.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: South Tyneside Council

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