CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Clwyd North
Clwyd North has 5 MW of renewables running, enough for 1,800 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,596 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bodelwyddan, Abergele Road - Solar Farm & Battery StorageStantec | Solar | 110 MW40,000 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref CAS-03950-F9K3T4 |
| Bodelwyddan, Abergele Road - Solar Farm & Battery StorageStantec | Battery | 110 MW | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref CAS-03950-F9K3T4 |
| Elwy Solar Energy FarmStatkraft UK Limited | Solar | 62 MW23,000 homes | Refused by the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) in 2022Who can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref DNS/3247619 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clwyd North | 0 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Clwyd East | 0 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Bangor Aberconwy | 18 MW | 214 MW | not visible |
Bangor Aberconwy next door has 18 MW waiting, more than Clwyd North's 0 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.