CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
St Helens South and Whiston
St Helens South and Whiston has 2.1 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,068 homes.
Ranks 335 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Manor - Battery Storage FacilitySizing John Limited | Battery | 57 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2022/0392/FUL |
| Sutton Heath RoadSweco | EfW Incineration | 15 MW | Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2016/0804/FUL |
| St Helens Green Hydrogen FacilityGrenian Hydrogen Limited | Hydrogen | 15 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2024/0459/FUL |
| College Street - Solar PanelsPilkington | Solar | 1.2 MW400 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2024/0229/SOL |
| Biffa Electricity Generating Compound, Burtonhead Road - Battery StorageBiffa Waste Services Limited | Battery | 1 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2022/0557/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Helens South and Whiston | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Warrington South | 1.2 MW | 6.8 MW | not visible |
| Widnes and Halewood | 4.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Warrington North | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| St Helens North | 0.9 MW | 1 MW | not visible |
| Knowsley | 1.5 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
Warrington North next door has 11 MW waiting, more than St Helens South and Whiston's 2.1 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.