Thornbury and Yate
Thornbury and Yate has 203 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 74,000 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,984 homes.
Ranks 20 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westerleigh Hill, Westerleigh - Battery Energy Storage FacilityImmersa Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P23/01180/F |
| Earthcott Green Farm, Earthcott Green - Battery Energy StorageImmersa Limited | Battery | 200 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P23/01244/F |
| Lower Larks Farm - Battery storageIPP Cero Generation | Battery | 100 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P22/03743/F |
| Iron Acton Substation, Latteridge Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemBalance Power Projects Limited | Battery | 99 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P23/02405/F |
| Severn Road, Hallen - Battery Storage FacilityEL Avonmouth Limited | Battery | 70 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P23/02741/F |
| Says Court Farm, Coalpit Heath - Battery Energy StorageAnglo Renewables Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P22/03920/F |
| Larks Lane & Latteridge Lane, Latteridge - Battery Storage FacilityAnglo Renewables | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P23/02270/F |
| Cattybrook Solar FarmLuminous Energy Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P23/03430/F |
| Perrinpit FarmGrune Energien | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref P21/01624/F |
| Rag Lane Solar FarmBayWa r.e. UK Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P20/24180/F |
| Hill Court, Tranton Lane Hill - Solar FarmLonglands Solar Farm Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P22/05462/F |
| Hill Court Solar farm & Battery storageLonglands Solar Farm Limited | Battery | 35 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P25/00579/F |
Plus 15 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornbury and Yate | 203 MW | 147 MW | not visible |
| Melksham and Devizes | 51 MW | 133 MW | not visible |
| South Cotswolds | 194 MW | 224 MW | not visible |
| North East Somerset and Hanham | 0.5 MW | 5.2 MW | not visible |
| Bath | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bristol North East | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Thornbury and Yate has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.