No.569 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Lisa Smart (Liberal Democrat) England

Hazel Grove

Hazel Grove 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,074 homes.

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No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency, so no switch-off payments show here in national data. Smaller wind farms on the local grid can still be paid to switch off — invisibly. The £ figure for this seat is a floor, not a zero.

how we worked this out

0 MW

of clean power approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 0 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning.

0 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out

£3.8m

is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 41,074 households in a year between them — £92 each, about 51 days of one home's electricity.

The £92 per household is a national figure — identical in every GB seat. Only the seat total varies, with the number of households · NESO · how we worked this out

Batteries

projects of 10 MW and above · planning database, July 2026 · what batteries do →

Site	Size	Status	While discharging
Ashton Road, Bredbury - Battery Energy Storage	75 MW	approved, not built 2025	could supply ≈263,000 homes
Bredbury Substation - Battery Storage Facility	50 MW	being built 2021	could supply ≈175,000 homes
Goyt Hall Farm, Goyt Valley Footpath - Battery Energy Storage	40 MW	approved, not built 2024	could supply ≈140,000 homes

What this page does not show

Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.

Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.

Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →

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