South Ribble
South Ribble has 4.4 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,600 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,379 homes.
Ranks 271 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penwortham - Battery storageShaw-Energi Limited | Battery | 57 MW | Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2028 · planning ref 07/2022/00021/FUL |
| Howick Hall Farm - Battery Storage FacilityPenwortham Storage Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 5.5 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: South Ribble Council · planning ref 07/2021/00252/FUL |
| Vause Farm - Battery StorageSirius Renewable Energy Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00362/FULMAJ |
| The GlowhouseAMP Clean Energy | Battery | 5 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 07/2020/00739/FUL |
Plus 3 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Ribble | 4.4 MW | 4.8 MW | not visible |
| West Lancashire | 1.5 MW | 3.3 MW | not visible |
| Southport | 2.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Chorley | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Preston | 0.7 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| Ribble Valley | 1.3 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
South Ribble 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.