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.
Ranks 311 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawthorne RoadBluefield Renewable Developments | Battery | 20 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref DC/2020/00085 |
| Royal Seaforth Dock, New Jenkins Sheds - Solar PanelsEON UK Heat Limited | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DC/2024/00111 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bootle | 2.7 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| Liverpool Riverside | 3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Liverpool Walton | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sefton Central | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Sefton Central next door has 11 MW waiting, more than Bootle's 2.7 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.