Crewe and Nantwich
Crewe and Nantwich has 7.8 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.4m across the constituency's 47,585 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlewich Road - Solar Photovoltaics & Battery Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,800 homes | 5.0 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
| Bentley Motors Limited, Sunnybank Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.7 MW | 2023-11 | 2.7 yrs |
| Building L1, Bentley Motors Limited, Pyms Lane - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2022-06 | 4.2 yrs |
| Pyms Lane - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
| Eagle Bridge Health and Wellbeing Centre, Dunwoody Way - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.4 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Sunnybank Road - Solar Photovoltaics Panel | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
| Building B2, Bentley Motors Limited, Pyms Lane - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
| Building A6, Bentley Motors Limited, Pyms Lane - Roof mounted solar photovoltaics | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middlewich Road - Solar Photovoltaics & Battery Storage | 25 MW | approved, not built 2022 | could supply ≈88,000 homes |
What this page does not show
Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.
Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.
Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →
What has Connor Naismith said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →