CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Glastonbury and Somerton
Glastonbury and Somerton has 21 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 7,700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,035 homes.
Ranks 193 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somerton Door Farm, Somerton Door Drove - Solar farmSky UK Development Limited | Solar | 7,300 homes 20 MW |
Waiting 1.0 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Somerset Council |
| Brains Solar FarmNextPower SPV 13 Limited | Solar | 6,800 homes 19 MW |
Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Merryfield Lane, Ilton - Solar FarmSolar South West Limited | Solar | 800 homes 2.2 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 4 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How Glastonbury and Somerton compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.