CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Caerphilly
Caerphilly has 20 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 7,300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,345 homes.
Ranks 199 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twyn Hywel Wind FarmBute Energy | Onshore wind | 92 MW81,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DNS/3272053 |
| Cwm Ivor Penyrheol Solar FarmCaerphilly County Borough Council | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DNS/3266623 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caerphilly | 20 MW | 32 MW | not visible |
| Cardiff North | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Pontypridd | 41 MW | 42 MW | not visible |
| Newport West and Islwyn | 0.3 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
| Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare | 10 MW | 31 MW | not visible |
| Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney | 66 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney next door has 66 MW waiting, more than Caerphilly's 20 MW.
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.