CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Mid Cheshire
Mid Cheshire has 23 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 8,200 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,547 homes.
Ranks 190 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| LostockTata Chemicals Europe (formerly Brunner Mond & E.on) | EfW Incineration | 60 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref S36 |
| Wallerscote Limebeds - Battery Energy StorageInfinis Solar Developments Limited / Green Earth Developments | Battery | 30 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02766/FUL |
| Wallerscote Limebeds - Solar Pv ParkInfinis Solar Developments Limited / Green Earth Developments | Solar | 22 MW8,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02766/FUL |
| Woodford Lane West - Solar Farm (Hebden Green)Anglo Renewables | Solar | 19 MW6,900 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02370/FUL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Cheshire | 23 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Chester South and Eddisbury | 19 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Congleton | 18 MW | 5.4 MW | not visible |
| Tatton | 5.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Mid Cheshire 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
- 3 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.