CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,368 homes.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wishaw Lane, Sutton Coldfield - Battery Energy StorageWiggins Hill BESS Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Birmingham Council · planning ref 2024/08003/PA |
| Maybrook Road - Battery facilityConrad Energy (Develeopments) Limited | Battery | 13 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2022/01927/PA |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Coldfield | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| North Warwickshire and Bedworth | 80 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Tamworth | 113 MW | 2 MW | not visible |
| Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North | 1.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Birmingham Perry Barr | 2.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Birmingham Erdington | 2.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Tamworth next door has 113 MW waiting, more than Sutton Coldfield's 0 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.