Rhondda and Ogmore
Rhondda and Ogmore has 81 MW of clean power (almost all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 68,000 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 43,994 homes. There is also 114 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 80 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mynydd Y Glyn Wind Farm, Rhondda - Wind TurbinesPennant Wind Energy Ventures Limited Walters Group | Onshore wind | 30 MW26,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DNS/3280378 |
| Upper Ogmore Wind FarmRES UK & Ireland Limited | Onshore wind | 25 MW22,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DNS/3213662 |
| Abergorki Wind FarmThrive Renewables | Onshore wind | 14 MW12,000 homes | Approved 11 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 13/0663/10 |
| Llwyncelyn Wind FarmCenin Renewables | Onshore wind | 7.2 MW6,300 homes | Waiting 8.0 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council · planning ref 18/0877/10 |
| Coed Ely - Solar FarmRhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council | Solar | 6 MW2,200 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 23/0994/08 |
| Pant y Wal (Extension)Pennant Walters | Onshore wind | 5 MW4,400 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/20/42/FUL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhondda and Ogmore | 81 MW | 114 MW | not visible |
| Aberafan Maesteg | 37 MW | 313 MW | £470k |
| Neath and Swansea East | 27 MW | 58 MW | not visible |
| Bridgend | 0.8 MW | 28 MW | not visible |
| Pontypridd | 41 MW | 42 MW | not visible |
| Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare | 10 MW | 31 MW | not visible |
Rhondda and Ogmore 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.