CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bolton North East
Bolton North East has 2 MW of renewables running, enough for 600 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.3m across the constituency's 47,255 homes.
Ranks 544 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Court Storage FacilityInfinis Solar Developments Limited | Battery | 4.8 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 11821/21 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton North East | 0.2 MW | 1.6 MW | not visible |
| Bury South | 0.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bolton South and Walkden | 3.6 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Bolton West | 0.6 MW | 2.2 MW | not visible |
| Bury North | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Rossendale and Darwen | 0.3 MW | 75 MW | not visible |
Bolton South and Walkden next door has 3.6 MW waiting, more than Bolton North East's 0.2 MW.
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.