CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
West Bromwich
West Bromwich has 3.4 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,200 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,808 homes.
Ranks 291 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edwin Richards Quarry, Portway Road - Battery StorageDowning Energy Development Company Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/24/69945 |
| Kelvin Energy Recovery FacilityEnfinium Energy Limited | EfW Incineration | 47 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref DC/17/61177 |
| Kelvin Energy Recovery FacilityEnfinium Energy Limited | EfW Incineration | 47 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref DC/17/61177 |
| Broadwell Road - Solar PanelsVoestalpine Metsec Plc | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PD/22/02136 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Bromwich | 3.4 MW | 1 MW | not visible |
| Halesowen | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Stourbridge | 1.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Smethwick | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Dudley | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Birmingham Perry Barr | 2.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
West Bromwich has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.