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No.190 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Andrew Cooper (Labour) England

Mid Cheshire

Mid Cheshire has 23 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 8,200 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,547 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
23 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 8,200 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning.
7 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£3.7m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 40,547 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 7 waiting projects · years since approval
Winsford Lifestyle Centre - Solar Panels 0.3 MW
4.8 YRS
Morrison Supermarkets - Solar Photovoltaics Panels 0.6 MW
4.2 YRS
Tiger Trailers, Road One - Solar Array 0.2 MW
4.2 YRS
Schoeller Allibert Limited, Road One - Solar Panels System 2.2 MW
3.5 YRS
Specialist Technical Products, Smokehall Lane - Solar Panels 0.2 MW
3.1 YRS
Tiger Trailers, Winsford Industrial Estate - Solar Panels 0.2 MW
2.6 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Woodford Lane West - Solar Farm (Hebden Green)Solar Photovoltaics6,900 homes19.0 MW2024-072.0 yrs
Schoeller Allibert Limited, Road One - Solar Panels SystemSolar Photovoltaics800 homes2.2 MW2023-013.5 yrs
Morrison Supermarkets - Solar Photovoltaics PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.6 MW2022-054.2 yrs
Winsford Lifestyle Centre - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2021-104.8 yrs
Tiger Trailers, Winsford Industrial Estate - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2024-012.6 yrs
Tiger Trailers, Road One - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2022-054.2 yrs
Specialist Technical Products, Smokehall Lane - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2023-063.1 yrs

Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.

Batteries

projects of 10 MW and above · planning database, July 2026 · what batteries do →
SiteSizeStatusWhile discharging
Wallerscote Limebeds - Battery Energy Storage30 MWapproved, not built 2025could supply ≈105,000 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 →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Andrew Cooper said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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