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St Helens North

MP: David Baines (Labour) England Data to July 2026

St Helens North has 1 MW of renewables running, enough for 900 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,922 homes.

Ranks 439 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Holiday Moss Landfill Site, Reeds Brow - Battery StoBiffa Waste Services Limited Battery
3 MW
Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company

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