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No.298 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Kim Johnson (Labour) England

Liverpool Riverside

Liverpool Riverside has 3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,100 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.6m across the constituency's 49,777 homes.

Not visible
here
No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency, so no switch-off payments show here in national data. Smaller wind farms on the local grid can still be paid to switch off — invisibly. The £ figure for this seat is a floor, not a zero.
how we worked this out
3 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,100 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning.
6 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£4.6m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 49,777 households in a year between them — £92 each, about 51 days of one home's electricity.
The £92 per household is a national figure — identical in every GB seat. Only the seat total varies, with the number of households · NESO · how we worked this out

The waiting list

6 of 6 waiting projects · years since approval
Tesco Superstore
5.3 YRS
Mercedes-Benz, Pall Mall - Solar Array 0.3 MW
3.9 YRS
Sainsburys, Jennifer Avenue - Solar panels 0.5 MW
2.9 YRS
Bulk Powder Terminals, Regent Road - Solar Panels 0.7 MW
2.5 YRS
Steel Terminal, Royal Seaforth Dock - Solar Panels
2.4 YRS
Huskisson Dock Building, Huskisson Dock - Solar PV Array 1.5 MW
2.4 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Huskisson Dock Building, Huskisson Dock - Solar PV ArraySolar Photovoltaics500 homes1.5 MW2024-032.4 yrs
Bulk Powder Terminals, Regent Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.7 MW2024-022.5 yrs
Sainsburys, Jennifer Avenue - Solar panelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2023-082.9 yrs
Mercedes-Benz, Pall Mall - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2022-083.9 yrs
Tesco SuperstoreSolar Photovoltaics—— MW2021-045.3 yrs
Steel Terminal, Royal Seaforth Dock - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics—— MW2024-032.4 yrs

Plus 2 more approved within the last two years.

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 →

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