CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Walsall and Bloxwich
Walsall and Bloxwich has 1.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,054 homes.
Ranks 362 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| BH Energy Gap - Waste Energy Plant, The 3RsBH EnergyGap | EfW Incineration | 49 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 19/1172 |
| Tesco Superstore WisemorePush Energy | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/0008 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walsall and Bloxwich | 1.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| West Bromwich | 3.4 MW | 1 MW | not visible |
| Tipton and Wednesbury | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wolverhampton South East | 2.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Aldridge-Brownhills | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Wolverhampton North East | 8.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Wolverhampton North East next door has 8.1 MW waiting, more than Walsall and Bloxwich's 1.6 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.