CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bolton South and Walkden
Bolton South and Walkden has 3.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.3m across the constituency's 47,139 homes.
Ranks 286 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stoneclough - Battery Energy StorageGAM Capital Limited / Infinis Energy Services Limited | Battery | 7 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 13256/22 |
| Kenyon WayPrivate Developer | Solar | 1.9 MW700 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20/74960/FUL |
| Edbro, Lever Street - Solar PanelsEdbro Plc | Solar | 1.7 MW600 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 15778/23 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton South and Walkden | 3.6 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Worsley and Eccles | 0.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leigh and Atherton | 0 MW | 0.5 MW | not visible |
| Salford | 0.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bury South | 0.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bolton West | 0.6 MW | 2.2 MW | not visible |
Bolton South and Walkden has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.