CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Llanelli
Llanelli has 106 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 39,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,821 homes.
Ranks 61 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tycroes Solar FarmSpring Dev 2 | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DNS/3227364 |
| Brynrhyd Solar FarmCapital Dynamics Limited | Solar | 36 MW13,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DNS/3260565 |
| Pencoed Ganol Farm, Pendderi Road - Solar PanelsWindel Solar 11 Limited | Solar | 35 MW13,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref CAS-04012-T8Y8D2 |
| Llangennech SolarVoltalia UK | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DNS/3213164 |
| Heol Aur, Dafen Industrial Estate - Battery Storage SystemWestfa Limited | Battery | 25 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/09340 |
| Glyngwernen Farm, Uchaf Fawr - Solar FarmBartypower Limited | Solar | 8.4 MW3,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/08017 |
Plus 4 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llanelli | 106 MW | 44 MW | not visible |
| Gower | 0 MW | 62 MW | not visible |
| Caerfyrddin | 7 MW | 157 MW | not visible |
Llanelli has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.