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Stafford
Stafford 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,730 homes.
Ranks 434 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flashbrook Road, Knighton - Solar FarmScottish Power Renewables | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 2.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Stafford Council · planning ref 22/36478/FUL |
| Wincote Farm, Wincote Lane - Solar FarmGreen Switch Capital | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Waiting 3.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Stafford Council · planning ref 23/37149/FUL |
| Flashbrook Road, Knighton - Solar FarmScottish Power Renewables | Battery | 15 MW | Waiting 2.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Stafford Council · planning ref 22/36478/FUL |
| Newcastle Road, Cotes Heath - Solar PanelsAmpyr Solar Europe | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Stafford Council · planning ref 25/40876/FUL |
| Aspley House Farm, Aspley Lane - Battery Storage FacilityHydrock | Battery | 10 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/36378/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| The Wrekin | 221 MW | 75 MW | not visible |
| North Shropshire | 11 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 1.1 MW | 6.3 MW | not visible |
| Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge | 125 MW | 5.8 MW | not visible |
| Stoke-on-Trent South | 115 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
The Wrekin next door has 221 MW waiting, more than Stafford's 0.9 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.