No.232 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Claire Hazelgrove (Labour) England

Filton and Bradley Stoke

Filton and Bradley Stoke has 8.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,100 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,325 homes.

Not visible
here
No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency, so no switch-off payments show here in national data. Smaller wind farms on the local grid can still be paid to switch off — invisibly. The £ figure for this seat is a floor, not a zero.
8.7 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,100 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning. That is 0.4× the renewable capacity actually running here.
14 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£3.9m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 42,325 households in a year between them — £92 each, about 51 days of one home's electricity.
The £92 per household is a national figure — identical in every GB seat. Only the seat total varies, with the number of households · NESO · how we worked this out

The waiting list

6 of 14 waiting projects · years since approval
Folly Brook Road, Emersons Green - Solar Panels 1 MW
3.8 YRS
Cribbs Causeway, Merlin Road - Solar Panels 0.4 MW
3.8 YRS
Iaaps, Newlands Lane - Solar Panels & Hydrogen Storage 0.7 MW
3.8 YRS
Morrison Supermarket, Lysander Road - Solar Panels
3.7 YRS
Carshop Bristol, Bolingbroke Way - Solar Panels 0.1 MW
3.2 YRS
Emerald Park, Emersons Green - Solar Panels 0.2 MW
3.2 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Airbus UK Industrial Complex - Solar panelsSolar Photovoltaics1,100 homes3.1 MW2024-042.3 yrs
Folly Brook Road, Emersons Green - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics400 homes1.0 MW2022-103.8 yrs
Abbey Wood Retail Park, Filton - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.9 MW2023-102.8 yrs
Iaaps, Newlands Lane - Solar Panels & Hydrogen StorageSolar Photovoltaics300 homes0.7 MW2022-103.8 yrs
Sainsburys Supermarkets Limited, The Village - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2024-032.4 yrs
DPD Bristol, Emersons Green - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.5 MW2024-032.4 yrs
Cribbs Causeway, Merlin Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.4 MW2022-103.8 yrs
Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, Fiddlers Wood Lane - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.4 MW2023-063.1 yrs
Abbey Wood Retail Park, Station Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2023-102.8 yrs
David Lloyd Leisure Club, Willowherb Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2023-092.9 yrs
Emerald Park, Emersons Green - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Dunelm, Centaurus Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Carshop Bristol, Bolingbroke Way - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.1 MW2023-053.2 yrs
Morrison Supermarket, Lysander Road - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics— MW2022-123.7 yrs

Plus 2 more approved within the last two years.

What this page does not show

Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.

Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.

Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →

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What has Claire Hazelgrove said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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