Bootle
Bootle has 2.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,000 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,869 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Seaforth Dock, New Jenkins Sheds - Solar PanelsNew Jenkins Sheds, 2 Royal Seaforth Dock, Bootle | Solar Photovoltaics | 700 homes | 2.0 MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Royal Seaforth Dock, New Jenkins Sheds - Solar PanelsNew Jenkins Sheds 2 Regent Road | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Merlin AFS, Royal Seaforth Dock - Solar PanelsMerlin Afs 2 Building, Royal Seaforth Dock, Liverpool | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| CWT North Building, Royal Seaforth Dock - Solar panelsCwt North Building, Royal Seaforth Dock, Liverpool | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Royal Seaforth Dock, CWT Stores Building - Solar PanelsCWT Stores Building Royal Seaforth Dock Waterloo | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Multiuser 4 Building - Solar PanelsMultiuser 4 Building Bootle | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Multiuser 1 Building, Regent Road - Solar PanelsMultiuser 1 Building Regent Road | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Maritime Stores, Royal Seaforth Dock - Solar PanelsMaritime Stores Royal Seaforth Dock Seaforth | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Rubies 1 Building, Royal Seaforth Dock - Solar PanelsRubies 1 Building Royal Seaforth Dock Seaforth | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-02 | 2.5 yrs |
| Rubies 2 Building, Royal Seaforth Dock - Solar PanelsRubies 2 Building Royal Seaforth Dock Seaforth | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Cwt Maintenance Building, Regent Road - Solar PanelsCWT Maintenance Building Regent Road | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Briggs Marine, Langton Dock - Solar PanelsBriggs Marine, Bootle, Liverpool | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Multiuser 2 Building, Regent Road - Solar PanelsMultiuser 2, Bootle, Liverpool | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Temp Control Building - Solar PanelsTemp Control Building, Bootle | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Maritime IT Building, Royal Seaforth Dock - Solar PanelsMaritime It Building, Royal Seaforth Dock, Waterloo, Liverpool | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Royal Seaforth Dock, Seaforth - Solar Photovoltaic PanelsContainer Building Royal Seaforth Dock Seaforth | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Royal Seaforth Dock - Solar PanelsMultiuser 3 Building, Royal Seaforth Dock, Bootle | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Multiuser 5 Building, Royal Seaforth Dock - Solar PanelsMultiuser 5 Building Royal Seaforth Dock | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawthorne Road | 20 MW | being built 2022 | could supply ≈70,000 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 →
What has Peter Dowd said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →