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Tiverton and Minehead
Tiverton and Minehead has 107 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 39,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,642 homes.
Ranks 60 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junction 27, Westleigh - Battery StorageClearstone Energy | Battery | 400 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01351/MFUL |
| Dean Hill Road - Solar FarmLow Carbon Storage Ireland | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02374/MFUL |
| The Transmitting Station, Williton - Solar Farm (Wyndham Estate)Elgin Energy ES Co Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 3/39/21/028 |
| The Village Of Halse - Solar ArrayNovus Renewable Services Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/22/0028 |
| The Transmitting Station, Williton - Battery Storage (Wyndham Estate)Elgin Energy ES Co Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 3/39/21/028 |
| Smithyard Lane - Battery StorageConrad Energy Limited | Battery | 15 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 3/39/22/007 |
| West HolcombeWessex Solar Energy | Solar | 5.5 MW2,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 14/01452/MFUL |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiverton and Minehead | 107 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Honiton and Sidmouth | 39 MW | 77 MW | not visible |
| Taunton and Wellington | 22 MW | 32 MW | not visible |
| Bridgwater | 54 MW | 59 MW | not visible |
| Central Devon | 11 MW | 41 MW | not visible |
| North Devon | 8.4 MW | 201 MW | not visible |
Tiverton and Minehead 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.