CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Taunton and Wellington
Taunton and Wellington has 22 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 7,900 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.4m across the constituency's 47,337 homes.
Ranks 192 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bull Street, Creech St Michael - Solar FarmSpring Dev 11 Limited | Solar | 34 MW12,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Somerset Council · planning ref 14/25/0018 |
| Ham Farm, Creech St Michael - Solar ArrayNovus Renewable Services Limited | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 14/22/0051 |
| Hele Manor Farm, Bradford On Tone - Battery Storage SystemSTOR 107 Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 07/22/0013 |
| VPK Wellington, Chelston Business Park - Solar PanelSNRG | Solar | 1.6 MW600 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 46/25/0019/CJ |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taunton and Wellington | 22 MW | 32 MW | not visible |
| Honiton and Sidmouth | 39 MW | 77 MW | not visible |
| Yeovil | 48 MW | 44 MW | not visible |
| Tiverton and Minehead | 107 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Bridgwater | 54 MW | 59 MW | not visible |
| Glastonbury and Somerton | 21 MW | 95 MW | not visible |
Tiverton and Minehead next door has 107 MW waiting, more than Taunton and Wellington's 22 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.