CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bolton West
Bolton West has 2 MW of renewables running, enough for 800 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,253 homes.
Ranks 468 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slack Lane, Westhoughton - Battery Energy Storage SystemFoundation Property & Capital Group | Battery | 45 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 18884/24 |
| Tesco Superstore, Mansell Way - Solar PanelsTesco Stores Limited | Solar | 1.1 MW400 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Bolton Council · planning ref 00752/26 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton West | 0.6 MW | 2.2 MW | not visible |
| Leigh and Atherton | 0 MW | 0.5 MW | not visible |
| Makerfield | 2.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bolton South and Walkden | 3.6 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Wigan | 1.1 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Bolton North East | 0.2 MW | 1.6 MW | not visible |
Bolton South and Walkden next door has 3.6 MW waiting, more than Bolton West's 0.6 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.