CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Cannock Chase
Cannock Chase 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,457 homes. A 100 MW battery was refused planning here in 2026; while discharging it could have supplied about 350,000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lime Lane, Pelsall - Battery Energy Storage SystemElgin Energy Esco Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Refused by Cannock Chase Council in 2026Who can move it: Cannock Chase Council · planning ref CH/25/0225 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannock Chase | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Aldridge-Brownhills | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Lichfield | 101 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge | 125 MW | 5.8 MW | not visible |
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge next door has 125 MW waiting, more than Cannock Chase'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
- 3 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.