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Bristol East

MP: Kerry McCarthy (Labour) England Data to July 2026

Bristol East has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,627 homes.

Ranks 520 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Philip Street Car BreakersConrad Energy Battery 7.2 MW Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/01888/F

Compared with its neighbours

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
Bristol East 0.3 MW0 MWnot visible
North East Somerset and Hanham 0.5 MW5.2 MWnot visible
Bristol South 1.7 MW0.2 MWnot visible
Bristol Central 0 MW0 MWnot visible
Bristol North East 0 MW0 MWnot visible

Bristol South next door has 1.7 MW waiting, more than Bristol East's 0.3 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
  • 2 story angles for local reporting
  • A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
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