CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Stourbridge
Stourbridge has 1.9 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,385 homes.
Ranks 343 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merry Hill Shopping Centre - Solar PanelsUnknown | Solar | 8.8 MW3,200 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P25/0416/PN14J |
| Merry Hill Centre - Solar PanelsOlympus Power | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P23/0897/PN14J |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stourbridge | 1.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bromsgrove | 51 MW | 0.7 MW | not visible |
| Halesowen | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| West Bromwich | 3.4 MW | 1 MW | not visible |
| Dudley | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Kingswinford and South Staffordshire | 2.5 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
Bromsgrove next door has 51 MW waiting, more than Stourbridge's 1.9 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.