CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,124 homes.
Ranks 515 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbay, Elmsley Lane, Kewstoke - Solar FarmSolar Southwest | Solar | 24 MW8,900 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/P/3036/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weston-super-Mare | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bridgwater | 54 MW | 59 MW | not visible |
| Wells and Mendip Hills | 78 MW | 131 MW | not visible |
Wells and Mendip Hills next door has 78 MW waiting, more than Weston-super-Mare's 0.3 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.