CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Chester North and Neston
Chester North and Neston has 2.9 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,100 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,601 homes.
Ranks 302 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mollington - Battery Energy StorageQair Renewables UK Limited | Battery | 240 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00132/FUL |
| Rectory Lane - Energy Storage SystemNet Zero Eighteen Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/02219/FUL |
| Capenhurst Lane, Capenhurst - Battery StorageAura Power BESS Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/03585/FUL |
| Capenhurst Lane, Capenhurst - Battery storageHD888CAP Limited | Battery | 57 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 21/02404/FUL |
| Land West Of Vicarage LaneSEP Puddington | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Waiting 11.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Cheshire West and Chester Council · planning ref 15/01910/FUL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chester North and Neston | 2.9 MW | 1.2 MW | not visible |
| Chester South and Eddisbury | 19 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Alyn and Deeside | 32 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| Ellesmere Port and Bromborough | 0.3 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Wirral West | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Runcorn and Helsby | 0.7 MW | 51 MW | not visible |
Alyn and Deeside next door has 32 MW waiting, more than Chester North and Neston's 2.9 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.