CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire has 33 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 12,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,923 homes.
Ranks 168 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penpergwm Solar Farm (Great House Farm)Renewable Connections Developments Limited / European Energy UK Ltd | Solar | 32 MW12,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref DNS/3252305 |
| Daisy Cottage, Ty-Canol Road - Solar PanelsPrivate Developer | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DM/2022/01163 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monmouthshire | 33 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
| Newport East | 4.2 MW | 103 MW | not visible |
| Forest of Dean | 64 MW | 98 MW | not visible |
| Torfaen | 3.5 MW | 10 MW | not visible |
| Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney | 66 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Hereford and South Herefordshire | 1.6 MW | 6 MW | not visible |
Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney next door has 66 MW waiting, more than Monmouthshire's 33 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.