Ceredigion Preseli
Ceredigion Preseli has 1.7 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 700 homes. 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,895 homes. There is also 80 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 361 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lluest y Gwynt Wind FarmStatkraft UK/Eco2 | Onshore wind | 50 MW44,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref DNS/3246727 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceredigion Preseli | 1.7 MW | 114 MW | not visible |
| Mid and South Pembrokeshire | 9.5 MW | 193 MW | not visible |
| Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe | 39 MW | 87 MW | not visible |
| Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr | 151 MW | 181 MW | not visible |
| Caerfyrddin | 7 MW | 157 MW | not visible |
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr next door has 151 MW waiting, more than Ceredigion Preseli's 1.7 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.