CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
St Helens South and Whiston
St Helens South and Whiston has 2.1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,068 homes.
Ranks 335 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Manor - Battery Storage FacilitySizing John Limited | Battery | 57 MW |
Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Sutton Heath RoadSweco | EfW Incineration | 15 MW |
Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| St Helens Green Hydrogen FacilityGrenian Hydrogen Limited | Hydrogen | 15 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 5 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How St Helens South and Whiston compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.