Widnes and Halewood
Widnes and Halewood has 4.8 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,758 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hedco, Desoto Road - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,300 homes | 3.5 MW | 2024-06 | 2.1 yrs |
| Ford Halewood Transmissions Spekere, Boulevard - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 500 homes | 1.3 MW | 2023-12 | 2.7 yrs |
Plus 6 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Michaels Road, Ditton Road - Battery Storage | 14 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈49,000 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 →
What has Derek Twigg said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →