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No.356 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Andrew Western (Labour) England

Stretford and Urmston

Stretford and Urmston has 1.8 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 41,881 homes.

Not visible
here
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
1.8 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 700 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning.
6 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£3.9m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 41,881 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

The waiting list

6 of 6 waiting projects · years since approval
Metrolink Trafford Depot, Warwick Road - Solar Arrays 0.3 MW
4.4 YRS
Fifth Avenue, Trafford Park - Solar Panels 0.3 MW
4.1 YRS
Longford Park School, Cromwell Road - Solar Panels 0.4 MW
3.6 YRS
DB Schenker, Mosley Road - Solar Arrays 0.2 MW
2.8 YRS
David Lloyd Manchester, Barton Embankment - Solar Panels 0.2 MW
2.4 YRS
CHEP Manchester, Trafford Park - Solar Panels 0.3 MW
2.3 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Longford Park School, Cromwell Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.4 MW2022-123.6 yrs
CHEP Manchester, Trafford Park - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2024-042.3 yrs
Metrolink Trafford Depot, Warwick Road - Solar ArraysSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2022-034.4 yrs
Fifth Avenue, Trafford Park - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2022-074.1 yrs
David Lloyd Manchester, Barton Embankment - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2024-032.4 yrs
DB Schenker, Mosley Road - Solar ArraysSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2023-102.8 yrs

Plus 7 more approved within the last two years.

Batteries

projects of 10 MW and above · planning database, July 2026 · what batteries do →
SiteSizeStatusWhile discharging
Carrington Power Station, Manchester Road - Battery Storage680 MWbeing built 2023could supply ≈2,383,000 homes
Daines Battery Energy Storage System600 MWapproved, not built 2025could supply ≈2,102,000 homes
Wild Fowl Farm, Carrington Lane - Battery Storage Facility35 MWapproved, not built 2025could supply ≈123,000 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 →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Andrew Western said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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