Newport East
Newport East has 4.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,500 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,644 homes.
Ranks 274 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uskmouth Power Station - Battery StorageSimec Atlantic Energy Uskmouth Power Station | Battery | 230 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/0823 |
| Uskmouth Power Station, West Nash Road - Battery Storage FacilityAW1 Energy Storage Limited | Battery | 120 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 23/0949 |
| Craig y Perthi Solar FarmJBM Solar Projects Limited | Solar | 100 MW36,000 homes | Refused by the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) in 2025Who can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref DNS/3279787 |
| Abertillery - Wind farmRWE Renewables UK Limited | Onshore wind | 40 MW35,000 homes | Waiting 22 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref DNS/3278009 |
| Leeway House, Leeway Industrial Estate - Battery Energy Storage SystemAldustria Limited | Battery | 21 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/0084 |
Plus 5 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport East | 4.2 MW | 103 MW | not visible |
| Newport West and Islwyn | 0.3 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
| Torfaen | 3.5 MW | 10 MW | not visible |
| Monmouthshire | 33 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
Monmouthshire next door has 33 MW waiting, more than Newport East's 4.2 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.