Bristol North West
Bristol North West has 5.6 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,000 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,608 homes. There is also 35 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 253 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Weston Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemFig Power | Battery | 20 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/04429/F |
| Moorhouse Farm, Moorhouse Lane - Solar ParkCabot Park Solar Limited | Solar | 3.8 MW1,400 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/05849/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol North West | 5.6 MW | 43 MW | not visible |
| North Somerset | 16 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bristol Central | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bristol North East | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Filton and Bradley Stoke | 8.7 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
| Thornbury and Yate | 203 MW | 147 MW | not visible |
Thornbury and Yate next door has 203 MW waiting, more than Bristol North West's 5.6 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.