Frome and East Somerset
Frome and East Somerset has 87 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 32,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 38,645 homes. A 60 MW battery was refused planning here in 2026; while discharging it could have supplied about 210,000 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluebell Wood Solar Farm & Battery Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 49.9 MW | 2024-07 | 2.1 yrs |
| Marksbury Plain - Solar Park | Solar Photovoltaics | 5,400 homes | 15.0 MW | 2022-07 | 4.1 yrs |
| Lodge Hill, Berkley - Solar Park | Solar Photovoltaics | 5,300 homes | 14.5 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Lodge Farm Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,800 homes | 5.0 MW | 2011-12 | 14.7 yrs |
| Burges Lane, Stoke St Michael - Solar Array Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 600 homes | 1.8 MW | 2024-01 | 2.6 yrs |
| Peter Green Haulage Limited, Leighton Lane Industrial Estate- Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2023-12 | 2.6 yrs |
| Bridges Electrical Engineers, Second Avenue - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-02 | 2.4 yrs |
| Optima Products, Mill Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-05 | 3.2 yrs |
Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Georges Cross Farm, Berkley Lane - Battery Energy Storage | 60 MW | refused 2026 | could supply ≈210,000 homes |
| Bluebell Wood Solar Farm & Battery Storage | 50 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Frome Power, Styles Close - Energy Storage Facility | 30 MW | in planning | could supply ≈105,000 homes |
| Ash Farm, Charlton Road - Battery Storage System | 10 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈35,000 homes |
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 →
What has Anna Sabine said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →