CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Birmingham Selly Oak
Birmingham Selly Oak 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 41,369 homes.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fordhouse Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemFPC (Electric Land) Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2023/00142/PA |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham Selly Oak | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bromsgrove | 51 MW | 0.7 MW | not visible |
| Solihull West and Shirley | 1.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Birmingham Northfield | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Birmingham Edgbaston | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Bromsgrove next door has 51 MW waiting, more than Birmingham Selly Oak's 0 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- 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
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.