CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Burton and Uttoxeter
Burton and Uttoxeter has 3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,100 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.3m across the constituency's 46,435 homes.
Ranks 299 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claymills Sewage Treatment Works, Meadow Lane - Solar PanelsWetmore Solar Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: East Staffordshire Council · planning ref P/2026/00480 |
| Upper Leigh - Battery Energy Storage SystemLightrock Power | Battery | 20 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Staffordshire Council · planning ref P/2025/00633 |
| Pirelli Limited, Derby Road - Solar PanelsPirelli Limited | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2024/00218 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burton and Uttoxeter | 3 MW | 58 MW | not visible |
| South Derbyshire | 0 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
| Derbyshire Dales | 16 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Lichfield | 101 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge | 125 MW | 5.8 MW | not visible |
| Stoke-on-Trent South | 115 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge next door has 125 MW waiting, more than Burton and Uttoxeter's 3 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.