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Halesowen

MP: Alex Ballinger (Labour) England Data to July 2026

Halesowen 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,813 homes.

Ranks 438 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Illeybrook Farm - Battery Energy StorageNet Zero Eleven Limited Battery 100 MW Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P23/0940
Lowlands Farm - Battery StorageAnglo Renewables Battery 50 MW Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P22/1733

Compared with its neighbours

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
Halesowen 0.9 MW0 MWnot visible
Bromsgrove 51 MW0.7 MWnot visible
Birmingham Edgbaston 0.8 MW0 MWnot visible
Stourbridge 1.9 MW0 MWnot visible
Smethwick 0.3 MW0 MWnot visible
West Bromwich 3.4 MW1 MWnot visible

Bromsgrove next door has 51 MW waiting, more than Halesowen's 0.9 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
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