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Alyn and Deeside
Alyn and Deeside has 32 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 12,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,775 homes.
Ranks 171 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyn Y Coed - Battery Energy Storage SystemNatPower UK | Battery | 500 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Flintshire Council · planning ref FUL/000450/25 |
| Bretton Hall Solar Farm (Wales)YnNi Newydd (New Energy Co-op) | Solar | 16 MW5,800 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DNS/3251545 |
| Bretton Hall Solar Farm (England)YnNi Newydd (New Energy Co-op) | Solar | 14 MW5,100 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02042/FUL |
| Coleshill Manufacturing, Coleshill Street - Coleshill Green Hydrogen ProjectHYRO Energy Limited (Octopus & RES) | Hydrogen | 7.5 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref FUL/000599/23 |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alyn and Deeside | 32 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| Wrexham | 16 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Chester South and Eddisbury | 19 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Clwyd East | 0 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Chester North and Neston | 2.9 MW | 1.2 MW | not visible |
Alyn and Deeside has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- 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
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.