CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Manchester Central
Manchester Central has 2.9 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,100 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.8m across the constituency's 52,288 homes.
Ranks 303 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medlock Road, Failsworth - Battery Energy StorageRoot Power (North) Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref FUL/353405/24 |
| City Football Academy - Solar PanelsManchester City Football Club | Solar | 1.1 MW400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 141212/FO/2024 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester Central | 2.9 MW | 4.1 MW | not visible |
| Gorton and Denton | 0.5 MW | 1.9 MW | not visible |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Blackley and Middleton South | 0.3 MW | 0.1 MW | not visible |
| Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton | 2.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Manchester Rusholme | 0.5 MW | 0.6 MW | not visible |
Manchester Central has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.