CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Oldham East and Saddleworth
Oldham East and Saddleworth 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,233 homes.
Ranks 491 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowerfields Farm, Warren Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Battery | 27 MW | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Oldham Council · planning ref FUL/354740/25 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oldham East and Saddleworth | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| High Peak | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Stalybridge and Hyde | 0.2 MW | 3 MW | not visible |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton | 2.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Colne Valley | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton next door has 2.8 MW waiting, more than Oldham East and Saddleworth's 0.5 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
- 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.