CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Chester South and Eddisbury
Chester South and Eddisbury has 19 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 7,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,824 homes.
Ranks 201 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chads Farm - Photovoltaic Arrays & Battery StorageRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Battery | 522 MW | Waiting 4.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Cheshire West and Chester Council · planning ref 22/00224/FUL |
| High Street - Solar FarmAnesco Limited | Solar | 18 MW6,400 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/04362/FUL |
| Chads Farm - Photovoltaic Arrays & Battery StorageRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Waiting 4.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Cheshire West and Chester Council · planning ref 22/00224/FUL |
| Hatherton Lodge Farm, Hunsterson Road - Solar FarmNoventum Power Limited | Solar | 12 MW4,500 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/5074/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chester South and Eddisbury | 19 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Wrexham | 16 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| North Shropshire | 11 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 1.1 MW | 6.3 MW | not visible |
| Crewe and Nantwich | 7.8 MW | 8 MW | not visible |
| Alyn and Deeside | 32 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
Alyn and Deeside next door has 32 MW waiting, more than Chester South and Eddisbury's 19 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.