CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Warrington South
Warrington South has 1.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 400 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,443 homes. A 250 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 876,000 homes.
Ranks 400 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Station Road, Fiddlers Ferry - Battery Energy StorageNet Zero One Limited | Battery | 250 MW | Refused by Warrington Council in 2025Who can move it: Warrington Council · planning ref 2025/00999/FULM |
| Fiddlers Ferry Power Station - Battery storageSSE Enterprise (SSE PLC) | Battery | 150 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2027, 4 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and National Grid · earliest connection 2027 · planning ref 2022/41800 |
| Mowcroft Solar FarmRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Solar | 27 MW9,900 homes | Refused by Warrington Council in 2025Who can move it: Warrington Council · planning ref 2025/00961/FULM |
| Former St Michaels Golf CourseHalton Borough Council | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 18/00087/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warrington South | 1.2 MW | 6.8 MW | not visible |
| Runcorn and Helsby | 0.7 MW | 51 MW | not visible |
| Tatton | 5.2 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 |
| Warrington North | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Warrington North next door has 11 MW waiting, more than Warrington South's 1.2 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
- 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.