CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Makerfield
Makerfield has 2.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,820 homes.
Ranks 332 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandyforth Farm, Ashton Road - Battery Energy StorageUKGEA | Battery | 70 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref A/23/96568/MAJOR |
| Poundland Distribution Centre,Three Sisters Road - Solar PanelStandard Life Assurance Limited | Solar | 2.2 MW800 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref A/22/93868/FULL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Makerfield | 2.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| St Helens North | 0.9 MW | 1 MW | not visible |
| Leigh and Atherton | 0 MW | 0.5 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 |
Makerfield has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.