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Stretford and Urmston
Stretford and Urmston has 1.8 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 41,881 homes.
Ranks 356 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrington Power Station, Manchester Road - Battery StorageStatera Energy | Battery | 680 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 110320/FUL/23 |
| Daines Battery Energy Storage SystemSSE Daines BESS Limited | Battery | 600 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2028, 3 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid · earliest connection 2028 · planning ref 115160/FUL/24 |
| Manchester Road - Green Hydrogen Production Facility & Battery StorageTrafford Green Hydrogen Limited | Hydrogen | 200 MW | Waiting 5.0 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Trafford Council · planning ref 105316/HYB/21 |
| Carrington - Cryogenic Energy StorageHighview Power | Liquid Air Energy Storage | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 108006/FUL/22 |
| Trafford Park, Carrington - Green Hydrogen FacilityCarlton Power Limited | Hydrogen | 40 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Trafford Council · planning ref 117384/RES/25 |
| Wild Fowl Farm, Carrington Lane - Battery Storage FacilityO&G Solar (SPV 56) Ltd | Battery | 35 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 113358/FUL/24 |
| Manchester Road - Green Hydrogen Production Facility & Battery StorageTrafford Green Hydrogen Limited | Hydrogen | 10 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 105316/HYB/21 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stretford and Urmston | 1.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wythenshawe and Sale East | 2.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Altrincham and Sale West | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Manchester Withington | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Warrington North | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Manchester Rusholme | 0.5 MW | 0.6 MW | not visible |
Warrington North next door has 11 MW waiting, more than Stretford and Urmston's 1.8 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.