Staffordshire Moorlands
Staffordshire Moorlands has 13 MW of renewables running, enough for 4,900 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.5m across the constituency's 37,742 homes. A 99 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 347,000 homes.
Ranks 510 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cellarhead Substation, Rownall Road - Battery Energy FacilityC&S Energy Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref SMD/2022/0444 |
| Cellarhead Substation, Rownall Road - Battery Storage FacilityS & C Energy Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Waiting 2.5 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Staffordshire Moorlands Council · planning ref SMD/2024/0055 |
| Leek Road, Werrington - Battery Energy StorageMasdar Arlington Energy | Battery | 300 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Staffordshire Council · planning ref SMD/2025/0354 |
| Newfields Farm, Rownall Road - Battery Energy StorageREPD Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref SMD/2024/0556 |
| Adj New House Farm, Luzlow Lane - Battery Energy StorageYLEM (BESS) South Limited | Battery | 99 MW | Refused by Staffordshire Moorlands Council in 2025Who can move it: Staffordshire Moorlands Council · planning ref SMD/2024/0568 |
| Armshead Farm, Armshead Road - Battery Energy Storage FacilityConrad Energy (Developments) Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref SMD/2022/0574 |
| Brown Edge - Battery StorageAnesco | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref SMD/2022/0076 |
| Draycott Cross Road - Battery Storage SystemBalance Power Projects Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref SMD/2023/0263 |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 0.4 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| Derbyshire Dales | 16 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Burton and Uttoxeter | 3 MW | 58 MW | not visible |
| Stoke-on-Trent South | 115 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Stoke-on-Trent Central | 1.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Stoke-on-Trent North | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Stoke-on-Trent South next door has 115 MW waiting, more than Staffordshire Moorlands's 0.4 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.