CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton has 2.8 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,416 homes.
Ranks 306 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitegate Battery StoragePelagic Energy (Constantine Energy) | Battery | 57 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref FUL/348501/22 |
| Chadderton - Battery energy storage facilityField | Battery | 20 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref FUL/348758/22 |
| IGC, Lydia Becker Way - Solar PanelsAshcroft Electrical Services Limited | Solar | 3.1 MW1,100 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref SONDPR/354801/25 |
| Chadderton - Battery Storage SystemZetex Plc | Battery | 2.5 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref FUL/348617/22 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton | 2.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Manchester Central | 2.9 MW | 4.1 MW | not visible |
| Blackley and Middleton South | 0.3 MW | 0.1 MW | not visible |
| Oldham East and Saddleworth | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Heywood and Middleton North | 5.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Heywood and Middleton North next door has 5.9 MW waiting, more than Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton's 2.8 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.