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Congleton
Congleton has 18 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 6,500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,842 homes.
Ranks 204 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Former EON Power Station, Booth Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemBluefield Sandbach Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/4104/FUL |
| Drury LaneMoss Lane Farm Solar Limited | Solar | 17 MW6,200 homes | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/2576N |
| Dragons Lane - Battery Storage FacilityHydrock | Battery | 12 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/2219C |
| School Lane, Warmingham - Compressed Air Energy StorageEDF Trading Gas Storage Limited | Compressed Air Energy Storage | 5 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/3686C |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congleton | 18 MW | 5.4 MW | not visible |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 1.1 MW | 6.3 MW | not visible |
| Crewe and Nantwich | 7.8 MW | 8 MW | not visible |
| Chester South and Eddisbury | 19 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Stoke-on-Trent North | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 0.4 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
Chester South and Eddisbury next door has 19 MW waiting, more than Congleton's 18 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.