Rossendale and Darwen
Rossendale and Darwen has 75 MW of renewables running, enough for 66,000 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,080 homes. There is also 75 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it. A 85 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 298,000 homes.
Ranks 530 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochdale Road, Edenfield - Battery StorageCubico Limited | Battery | 85 MW | Refused by Rossendale Council in 2025Who can move it: Rossendale Council · planning ref 2024/0501 |
| Park Road Battery StorageArlington Energy Limited Avery Energy | Battery | 10 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2021/0456 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rossendale and Darwen | 0.3 MW | 75 MW | not visible |
| Heywood and Middleton North | 5.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Rochdale | 0.7 MW | 37 MW | not visible |
| Calder Valley | 1.4 MW | 12 MW | not visible |
| Bolton West | 0.6 MW | 2.2 MW | not visible |
| Bolton North East | 0.2 MW | 1.6 MW | not visible |
Heywood and Middleton North next door has 5.9 MW waiting, more than Rossendale and Darwen's 0.3 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.