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High Peak
High Peak 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 40,772 homes.
Ranks 516 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardybarn Lane, Green Fairfield - Battery Energy StoS & L Energy Limited | Battery | 40 MW |
Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: High Peak Council |
| Marsh Lane, Gowhole - Energy Storage SystemNovus Renewable Services Limited | Battery | 30 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Dolly Lane, Buxworth - Battery Storage Facility & SuW Rigby & Sons | Battery | 13 MW |
Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 4 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How High Peak compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.