CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Knowsley
Knowsley has 1.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,161 homes.
Ranks 377 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perimeter Road, Kirkby - Battery Energy StorageUnknown | Battery | 165 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Knowsley Council · planning ref 25/00521/FUL |
| Cut Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemPivoted Power Llp | Battery | 57 MW | Waiting 16 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Knowsley Council · planning ref 25/00228/FUL |
| Coopers Lane, Kirkby - Battery Storage FacilityPelagic Energy | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02008/FUL |
| Larkins Farm, Gellings Lane - Solar FarmNorth West Solar Limited | Solar | 1.5 MW500 homes | Refused by Knowsley Council in 2024Who can move it: Knowsley Council · planning ref 23/02676/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowsley | 1.5 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
| Liverpool Garston | 1.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Liverpool Wavertree | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Widnes and Halewood | 4.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| St Helens South and Whiston | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| St Helens North | 0.9 MW | 1 MW | not visible |
Widnes and Halewood next door has 4.8 MW waiting, more than Knowsley's 1.5 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.