CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Stoke-on-Trent Central
Stoke-on-Trent Central has 1.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.5m across the constituency's 48,728 homes.
Ranks 365 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leek Road - Solar PV arrayGoodwin Plc | Solar | 1.1 MW400 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 67329/FUL |
| Royal Stoke University Hospital - Solar PanelsUniversity Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/PRA/00279 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stoke-on-Trent Central | 1.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 1.1 MW | 6.3 MW | not visible |
| Stoke-on-Trent South | 115 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Stoke-on-Trent North | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 0.4 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
Stoke-on-Trent South next door has 115 MW waiting, more than Stoke-on-Trent Central's 1.6 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.