CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
West Lancashire
West Lancashire has 1.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,232 homes.
Ranks 369 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avondale Nurseries, Spa Lane - Battery Energy StorageSandbrook Capital Bes Limited | Battery | 320 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2024/1053/FUL |
| Tontine Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemCoriolis Energy | Battery | 70 MW | Waiting 3.5 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: West Lancashire Council · planning ref 2022/1368/FUL |
| Far Moor - Battery Energy Storage SystemGreenfield Energy Developments Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 15 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: West Lancashire Council · planning ref 2025/0361/FUL |
| Unit 5 XL Business ParkAmber Infrastructure Group | Battery | 50 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 2017/0968/FUL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Lancashire | 1.5 MW | 3.3 MW | not visible |
| St Helens North | 0.9 MW | 1 MW | not visible |
| Makerfield | 2.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Knowsley | 1.5 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
| Sefton Central | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Southport | 2.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Sefton Central next door has 11 MW waiting, more than West Lancashire's 1.5 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.