CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
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.
Ranks 356 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrington Power Station, Manchester Road - Battery Statera Energy | Battery | 680 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
| Daines Battery Energy Storage SystemSSE Daines BESS Limited | Battery | 600 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2028, 3 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid |
| Manchester Road - Green Hydrogen Production FacilityTrafford Green Hydrogen Limited | Hydrogen | 200 MW |
Waiting 5.0 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Trafford Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 7 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 Stretford and Urmston 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.