No.223 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Charlotte Nichols (Labour) England

Warrington North

Warrington North has 11 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,900 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,782 homes.

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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

11 MW

of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,900 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning.

9 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out

£3.8m

is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 41,782 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 9 waiting projects · years since approval

Units 2-4 Opus 9 Industrial Estate - Roof mounted solar panels 0.2 MW

4.2 YRS

Mercedes Benz, Juniper Lane - Solar Panels 0.2 MW

3.8 YRS

Dominos Pizza, Skyline Drive - Solar Panels 1 MW

3.5 YRS

Silver Lane, Risley - Solar Farm 5 MW

3.0 YRS

Lockheed Road, Burtonwood & Westbrook - Solar panels 1.8 MW

3.0 YRS

Fairchild Road, Burtonwood & Westbrook - Solar Panels 1 MW

2.8 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026

Site	Technology	Enough for	Capacity	Approved	Waiting
Silver Lane, Risley - Solar Farm	Solar Photovoltaics	1,800 homes	5.0 MW	2023-08	3.0 yrs
Lockheed Road, Burtonwood & Westbrook - Solar panels	Solar Photovoltaics	600 homes	1.8 MW	2023-08	3.0 yrs
Fairchild Road, Burtonwood & Westbrook - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	400 homes	1.0 MW	2023-10	2.8 yrs
Dominos Pizza, Skyline Drive - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	400 homes	1.0 MW	2023-02	3.5 yrs
Warrington Vehicle Centre, Hardwick Grange - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	300 homes	0.7 MW	2024-06	2.1 yrs
City Plumbing, Lockheed Road - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	200 homes	0.6 MW	2024-06	2.1 yrs
Units 2-4 Opus 9 Industrial Estate - Roof mounted solar panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.2 MW	2022-05	4.2 yrs
Arnold Clark Automobiles, Europa Boulevard - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.2 MW	2024-04	2.3 yrs
Mercedes Benz, Juniper Lane - Solar Panels	Solar Photovoltaics	100 homes	0.2 MW	2022-10	3.8 yrs

Plus 7 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 →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Charlotte Nichols said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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