Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge has 125 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 45,000 homes. 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, £3.5m across the constituency's 38,510 homes.
Ranks 46 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oaklands Farm, New Road - Battery Energy StorageConrad Energy (Developments) II Limited | Battery | 70 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01044/FULM |
| Levedale Road, Levedale - Battery Energy StorageAnglo Renewables Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00145/FUL |
| Upper Latherford Farm, Latherford Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemNet Zero Twelve Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00883/FUL |
| Preston Hill Farm, Penkridge - Solar FarmEngena Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00009/FUL |
| Lower Farm, Drointon Lane - Solar farm & Battery Energy StorageInnova Renewables | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/36938/FUL |
| Hobble Lane, Great Wyrley - Battery Energy StorageAnglo ES Great Wyrley Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00010/FULM |
| Hanyards Lane, Tixall - Solar Energy ParkPrivate Developer | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/37621/FUL |
| Yew Tree Farm, Drointon LanePush Energy | Solar | 49 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 15 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Stafford Council · planning ref 25/40571/FUL |
| Lawn Lane, Coven - Solar FarmAnesco Limited | Solar | 48 MW17,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01083/FULM |
| Chillington Estate, Chillington Park - Solar PanelsElgin Energy Esco Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00576/FULM |
| Chillington Estate, Chillington Park - Battery StorageElgin Energy Esco Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00576/FULM |
| Littywood Farm, Toft Lane - Solar ArrayElgin Energy Services | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00936/FUL |
Plus 4 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge | 125 MW | 5.8 MW | not visible |
| Walsall and Bloxwich | 1.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Aldridge-Brownhills | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wolverhampton North East | 8.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Cannock Chase | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Kingswinford and South Staffordshire | 2.5 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.