Cardiff East
Cardiff East has 13 MW of renewables running, enough for 5,800 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,227 homes.
Ranks 512 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ipswich Road, Cardiff - Battery StorageGreen Frog Power 214 Limited | Battery | 93 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02817/FUL |
| Mor Hafren ERFMor Hafren Biopower | EfW Incineration | 15 MW | Refused by the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) in 2021Who can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref DNS/3236340 |
| Panasonic Manufacturing, Pentwyn - BESSPanasonic Manufacturing UK | Battery | 1.1 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 24/00924/FUL |
| Euroclad Group, Wentloog Road - Solar PanelsEuroclad Group Limited | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/02982/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiff East | 0.4 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| Cardiff South and Penarth | 25 MW | 12 MW | not visible |
| Cardiff North | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Newport West and Islwyn | 0.3 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
Cardiff South and Penarth next door has 25 MW waiting, more than Cardiff East's 0.4 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
- 2 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.