Taunton and Wellington
Taunton and Wellington has 22 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 7,900 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.4m across the constituency's 47,337 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ham Farm, Creech St Michael - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 7,300 homes | 20.0 MW | 2024-06 | 2.1 yrs |
| Crown Industrial Estate, Venture Way - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.7 MW | 2023-01 | 3.6 yrs |
| Foundation House, Culmhead - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-11 | 2.7 yrs |
| Growth Technology Limited, Norton Fitzwarren - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
| Hollywood Bowl - Solar Voltaic Equipment | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-01 | 4.5 yrs |
| Wellington Sports Centre, Corams Lane - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| St Margarets Hospice, Heron Drive - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2023-01 | 3.6 yrs |
| Rivergate House - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2023-11 | 2.7 yrs |
| Culmhead Business Park - Ground Mounted Photovoltaic Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2024-01 | 2.6 yrs |
Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fideoak Mills | 30 MW | 2018 | could supply ≈105,000 homes |
| Hele Manor Farm, Bradford On Tone - Battery Storage System | 20 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈70,000 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 Gideon Amos said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →