CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Tipton and Wednesbury
Tipton and Wednesbury 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,233 homes.
Ranks 447 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland Quarry Products, Smith Road - Battery StorageGresham House Devco Pipeline Limited | Battery | 10 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/24/69271 |
| WednesburyKew Technologies (formerly JCB Broadcrown) | EfW Incineration | 2 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref DC/14/57758 |
| Moorcroft Drive, Moorcroft Park - Solar PanelsNoble Green Energy | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PD/25/03053 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tipton and Wednesbury | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| West Bromwich | 3.4 MW | 1 MW | not visible |
| Dudley | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wolverhampton South East | 2.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Walsall and Bloxwich | 1.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
West Bromwich next door has 3.4 MW waiting, more than Tipton and Wednesbury's 0.8 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.