CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Glastonbury and Somerton
Glastonbury and Somerton has 21 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 7,700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,035 homes.
Ranks 193 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somerton Door Farm, Somerton Door Drove - Solar farmSky UK Development Limited | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Somerset Council · planning ref 25/01694/FUL |
| Brains Solar FarmNextPower SPV 13 Limited | Solar | 19 MW6,800 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/02205/FUL |
| Merryfield Lane, Ilton - Solar FarmSolar South West Limited | Solar | 2.2 MW800 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00606/FUL |
| Middle Drove and Porchestall Drove - Solar ArrayAvalon Community Energy | Solar | 1.2 MW400 homes | Refused by Somerset Council in 2025Who can move it: Somerset Council · planning ref 2025/1122/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glastonbury and Somerton | 21 MW | 95 MW | not visible |
| North Dorset | 97 MW | 94 MW | not visible |
| South West Wiltshire | 74 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| Yeovil | 48 MW | 44 MW | not visible |
| Taunton and Wellington | 22 MW | 32 MW | not visible |
| Bridgwater | 54 MW | 59 MW | not visible |
North Dorset next door has 97 MW waiting, more than Glastonbury and Somerton's 21 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.