Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire has 2.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 900 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.5m across the constituency's 38,381 homes. A 100 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 350,000 homes.
Ranks 319 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orchard Farm, Langley Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemRE Projects Development Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Refused by South Staffordshire Council in 2025Who can move it: South Staffordshire Council · planning ref 24/01102/FULM |
| Pool Hall Farm, Lower Penn - Battery StorageElgin Energy Esco Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01092/FULM |
| Ebstree Road, Trysull, Seisdon - Battery Energy StorageNZED Projectco 3 limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00431/FULM |
| Canalside - Battery Storage SystemGreenfield Energy Developments Limited / Renewable Power Capital | Battery | 60 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00951/FULM |
| Penstone Lane, Lower Penn 2 - Battery StorageAnglo Renewables Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00045/FUL |
| South Staffordshire Railway Walk, Castlecroft - Battery StorageBalance Power Projects Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/00440/FUL |
| Penstone Lane, Penn 1 - Battery Storage FacilityAnglo Renewables Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00044/FUL |
| Hinksford Substation, Hinksford Lane - Battery Energy StorageBalance Power Projects Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00190/FULM |
| Ebstree Road, Trysull - Battery Energy StorageBengrove Bess Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00980/FULM |
| Wombourne Road, Wombourne - Battery Energy Storage SystemPathfinder Clean Energy UK Dev Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01093/FULM |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingswinford and South Staffordshire | 2.5 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
| Bromsgrove | 51 MW | 0.7 MW | not visible |
| Stourbridge | 1.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Dudley | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wolverhampton West | 0.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wolverhampton North East | 8.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Bromsgrove next door has 51 MW waiting, more than Kingswinford and South Staffordshire's 2.5 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.