CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bridgwater
Bridgwater has 54 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 20,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,871 homes.
Ranks 113 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summerway Drove, East Bower - Battery StorageRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Battery | 90 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 08/23/00369 |
| Impens Farm - Solar Farm & Battery StorageEnso Energy Holdings H Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 37/22/00013 |
| North Newton Solar FarmNorth Newton Solar Farm Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Somerset Council · planning ref 37/25/00101 |
| Saltlands Avenue - Solar ParksSomerset County Council | Solar | 8.9 MW3,200 homes | Waiting 4.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Somerset Council · planning ref 20/22/00001 |
| Showground RoadBridgwater Resource Recovery | EfW Incineration | 7.8 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 1/37/15/093 |
| Showground Road, Bridgwater Energy Recovery FacilityBridgwater Resource Recovery Limited | EfW Incineration | 7.8 MW | Waiting 5.8 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Somerset Council · planning ref SCC/3761/2020 |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgwater | 54 MW | 59 MW | not visible |
| Taunton and Wellington | 22 MW | 32 MW | not visible |
| Tiverton and Minehead | 107 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Wells and Mendip Hills | 78 MW | 131 MW | not visible |
| Weston-super-Mare | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Glastonbury and Somerton | 21 MW | 95 MW | not visible |
Tiverton and Minehead next door has 107 MW waiting, more than Bridgwater's 54 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 3 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.