CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Chorley
Chorley has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,774 homes.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Energy Park, Eyes Lane - Solar panelsGA Pet Food Partners Group Limited | Solar | 12 MW4,400 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Chorley Council · planning ref 25/01256/FULMAJ |
| Green Energy Park, Eyes Lane - BESSGA Pet Food Partners Group Limited | Battery | 5 MW | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Chorley Council · planning ref 25/01256/FULMAJ |
| Green Energy Park, Eyes Lane - Wind TurbineGA Pet Food Partners Group Limited | Onshore wind | 4.2 MW3,700 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Chorley Council · planning ref 25/01256/FULMAJ |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| West Lancashire | 1.5 MW | 3.3 MW | not visible |
| Wigan | 1.1 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Bolton West | 0.6 MW | 2.2 MW | not visible |
| Rossendale and Darwen | 0.3 MW | 75 MW | not visible |
| South Ribble | 4.4 MW | 4.8 MW | not visible |
South Ribble next door has 4.4 MW waiting, more than Chorley's 0 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.