CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury has 25 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 9,100 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,659 homes.
Ranks 182 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Shrewsbury Substation, Uffington - Battery Energy StorageLower 48 Energy BESS Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Waiting 17 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Shropshire Council · planning ref 25/00531/FUL |
| Church Farm, Withington - Solar FarmElgin Energy | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/03486/FUL |
| Haughmond Quarry - Uffington Solar FarmOpdenergy UK 10 Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Refused by Shropshire Council in 2024Who can move it: Shropshire Council · planning ref 24/00724/FUL |
| Bath Mews, Minsterley - Battery Storage FacilityFig Power | Battery | 10 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00889/FUL |
| Bridge Farm, Uffington - Battery Energy StorageHydrock | Battery | 8 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00254/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shrewsbury | 25 MW | 37 MW | not visible |
| Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr | 151 MW | 181 MW | not visible |
| South Shropshire | 112 MW | 78 MW | not visible |
| The Wrekin | 221 MW | 75 MW | not visible |
| North Shropshire | 11 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
The Wrekin next door has 221 MW waiting, more than Shrewsbury's 25 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.