CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Westmorland and Lonsdale has 5.3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,900 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,531 homes.
Ranks 258 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eskrigg End Road, Old Hutton - Battery Energy StoragHarmony MS Limited | Battery | 200 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Trainriggs Shap - Solar Farm & Battery StorageAbei Energy Limited | Solar | 13,000 homes 37 MW |
Refused by Westmorland and Furness Council in 2026Who can move it: Westmorland and Furness Council |
| North James Cropper, Garnett Bridge Road - Solar ArrEllergreen Hydro | Solar | 1,100 homes 3 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 5 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 Westmorland and Lonsdale compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 2 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.