CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,649 homes.
Ranks 524 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire Power Station - Battery Storage FacilityRWE Generation UK Plc | Battery | 45 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/04501/FUL |
| Hooton ParkCogen | Advanced Conversion Technologies | 28 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref APP/08/06316 |
| Jaguar Landrover Phoenix Building, Eric Foundation Road - Solar ArrayJaguar | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00515/P14 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellesmere Port and Bromborough | 0.3 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Chester North and Neston | 2.9 MW | 1.2 MW | not visible |
| Wirral West | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Birkenhead | 1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Runcorn and Helsby | 0.7 MW | 51 MW | not visible |
Chester North and Neston next door has 2.9 MW waiting, more than Ellesmere Port and Bromborough's 0.3 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.