Weston-super-Mare, Locking & Hutton

Join the conversation about future renewable energy schemes that could be owned by and benefit your local community. We're interested in what you think about a community-owned wind turbine or solar farm in the Weston, Locking & Hutton area.

This includes finding out:

If you'd support renewable energy in the area.
Where a wind turbine or solar farm could be located.
How your community could benefit from a possible renewable energy scheme.

This page tells you more about what's been happening in your area, and which live opportunities you can get involved in.

The Centre for Sustainable Energy is working in partnership with North Somerset Council and Low Carbon Gordano, with support from Race Equality North Somerset & The Other Place. This work is funded by the Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme. You can find out more about the work here and check our FAQs.

What's happened so far?

September 2025

We held a workshop at The Other Place to start a conversation about community energy in the area and explore possibilities for community benefit, and possible areas for a renewable energy project. The workshop was attended by 14 people from the area.

Click here to read the report summarising the workshop discussions.

The workshop report was published and an online survey launched to find out what other people in the area think about the workshop findings, and about community energy generally.

December 2025

We held a pop up stand at the Campus in Worle on 2nd December to promote the online survey, meet people and understand their opinions on community owned renewable energy.

We spoke to residents from the area to get their views on the outputs from our workshop, give their thoughts on a community owned renewable energy scheme and if they were supportive to indicate where in the local area they may be comfortable seeing something happen.

March 2026

We held a pop-up stall at the University Centre Weston to engage staff and students with our findings from the workshop and engagement so far. We spoke to around 50 people from across the three areas of Weston, Locking & Hutton.

What happens next?

We will be summarising all findings from our engagement and outputs from the workshop into a final report that will be shared with the project partners. The partners will then decide it feels like there are opportunities to explore this further in the future. If this is something you’d be interested in being a part of please get in touch by emailing communities@cse.org.uk