CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Wells and Mendip Hills
Wells and Mendip Hills has 78 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 29,000 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £3.5m across the constituency's 38,033 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2024; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
Ranks 87 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Station Road & Nye Road, Sandford - Battery Energy SAura Power Developments Limited | Battery | 100 MW |
Waiting 1.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Somerset Council |
| Yew Tree Farm, Yew Tree Lane - Solar FarmYew Tree Farm Solar Limited | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Yanel Farm, Churchill Green - Solar FarmCapital Dynamics Limited | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 16 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 Wells and Mendip Hills 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.