CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Hazel Grove
Hazel Grove 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 41,074 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashton Road, Bredbury - Battery Energy StorageCragside Energy Limited | Battery | 75 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/094002 |
| Bredbury Substation - Battery Storage FacilityPrivate Developer | Battery | 50 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref DC/082085 |
| Goyt Hall Farm, Goyt Valley Footpath - Battery Energy StorageQueequeg Renewables Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/090340 |
| Torkington Road, Hazel Grove - Solar PV PanelsConrad Energy (Developments) Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Stockport Council · planning ref DC/096042 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazel Grove | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Macclesfield | 1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Cheadle | 1.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| High Peak | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Stockport | 1.2 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| Gorton and Denton | 0.5 MW | 1.9 MW | not visible |
Cheadle next door has 1.2 MW waiting, more than Hazel Grove'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.