CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP

Weston-super-Mare

MP: Dan Aldridge (Labour) England Data to July 2026

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 developerTechSizeWhy 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

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
Weston-super-Mare 0.3 MW0 MWnot visible
Bridgwater 54 MW59 MWnot visible
Wells and Mendip Hills 78 MW131 MWnot 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
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