Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr has 151 MW of clean power (almost all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 130,000 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,167 homes. There is also 168 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 33 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronwylfa Road, Rhostyllen - Energy Storage SystemInnova Renewables | Battery | 400 MW | Waiting 2.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wrexham Council · planning ref P/2024/0155 |
| Esgair CwmowenPennant Walters | Onshore wind | 48 MW42,000 homes | Waiting 16.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Powys Council · planning ref P/2010/0890 |
| Carno 3Amegni Renewables | Onshore wind | 45 MW39,000 homes | Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2010/0762 |
| HirddywelVattenfall | Onshore wind | 27 MW24,000 homes | Waiting 16.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Powys Council · planning ref P/2010/0650 |
| Buttington Quarry - ERFBroad Energy (Wales) Ltd | EfW Incineration | 13 MW | 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/3214813 |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr | 151 MW | 181 MW | not visible |
| Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe | 39 MW | 87 MW | not visible |
| Shrewsbury | 25 MW | 37 MW | not visible |
| Wrexham | 16 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| South Shropshire | 112 MW | 78 MW | not visible |
| North Shropshire | 11 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr 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.