Clwyd East
Clwyd East has 2 MW of renewables running, enough for 1,600 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,460 homes.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dyserth Falls Resort, Allt Y Graig - Biomass BoilersLyons Holiday Parks Limited | Biomass (dedicated) | 1 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 42/2023/0591 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clwyd East | 0 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr | 151 MW | 181 MW | not visible |
| Wrexham | 16 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Alyn and Deeside | 32 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| Clwyd North | 0 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Dwyfor Meirionnydd | 1.9 MW | 49 MW | not visible |
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr next door has 151 MW waiting, more than Clwyd East's 0 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 1 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.