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Congresbury and Puxton workshop outputs and consultation now live

North Somerset Council held a public workshop (facilitated by the Centre for Sustainable Energy) on 23rd January, exploring the potential to increase renewable energy development in Congresbury and Puxton. At the workshop participants (all residents of the local area) gave conditional support for:

Medium scale wind turbines (up to 1 megawatt in output and 100 metres in height), ground based solar panels and community scale battery storage by the M5 to the northwest of West Hewish, on the condition the turbines are community owned.

The significant expansion of the four existing ground based solar farms within the two parishes with the potential to approximately treble their size.

If you live or work in the Congresbury and Puxton area, please share your thoughts on what was said and view a map of the suggestions in this short survey: https://communityenergyplan.commonplace.is/proposals/congresbury-and-puxton/step1

If you have any queries please email communities@cse.org.uk OR call us on 0117 934 1400 for a paper summary and form.

Posted on 2nd February 2022

by Centre for Sustainable Energy