CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Lichfield
Lichfield has 101 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 37,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,812 homes. A 200 MW battery was refused planning here in 2026; while discharging it could have supplied about 701,000 homes.
Ranks 68 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armitage Road, Armitage - Battery Energy StorageGalileo Empower | Battery | 200 MW | Refused by Lichfield Council in 2026Who can move it: Lichfield Council · planning ref 25/01399/FULM |
| Lions Den, Hammerwich - Battery Storage FacilityElgin Energy Services Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01169/FULM |
| Hawkesyard Estate, Rugeley Road - Battery Energy StorageGSC Hawkesyard Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Lichfield Council · planning ref 25/01221/FULM |
| Colton Mill Farm & Cawarden Springs Farm - Solar PanelsSpring Dev 07 Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/00359/FULM |
| Black Flatts Solar FarmOpdenergy UK 2 Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01620/FULM |
| Moreton Brook Farm, Lea Lane - Solar FarmAura Power Developments Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2024/0569/SOL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lichfield | 101 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Tamworth | 113 MW | 2 MW | not visible |
| Aldridge-Brownhills | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Cannock Chase | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| South Derbyshire | 0 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
| Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge | 125 MW | 5.8 MW | not visible |
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge next door has 125 MW waiting, more than Lichfield's 101 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.