CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
High Peak
High Peak 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 40,772 homes.
Ranks 516 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardybarn Lane, Green Fairfield - Battery Energy Storage FacilityS & L Energy Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: High Peak Council · planning ref HPK/2026/0188 |
| Marsh Lane, Gowhole - Energy Storage SystemNovus Renewable Services Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref HPK/2023/0193 |
| Dolly Lane, Buxworth - Battery Storage Facility & Sub StationW Rigby & Sons | Battery | 13 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref HPK/2023/0407 |
| Carpenter Plc, Dinting Lodge Industrial Estate - Solar ArrayCentrica Business Solutions | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref HPK/2023/0442 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Peak | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Derbyshire Dales | 16 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 0.4 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| Macclesfield | 1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sheffield Hallam | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Penistone and Stocksbridge | 0 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
Derbyshire Dales next door has 16 MW waiting, more than High Peak's 0.3 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.