CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bristol South
Bristol South has 1.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,458 homes.
Ranks 359 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hersey Gardens - Solar PanelsBristol City Leap | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Bristol, City of Council · planning ref 26/10173/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol South | 1.7 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| North East Somerset and Hanham | 0.5 MW | 5.2 MW | not visible |
| North Somerset | 16 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bristol East | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bristol Central | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
North Somerset next door has 16 MW waiting, more than Bristol South's 1.7 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
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.