CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Torfaen
Torfaen has 3.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,241 homes.
Ranks 288 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mynydd Maen - Wind FarmRES Limited | Onshore wind | 55 MW48,000 homes | Waiting 17 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref DNS/3276725 |
| Pentre Bach Solar FarmElgin Energy EsCo Ltd | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref DNS/3239190 |
| Ty Coch Hollybush WayTorfaen CBC | Solar | 3 MW1,100 homes | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 19/P/0464/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torfaen | 3.5 MW | 10 MW | not visible |
| Newport East | 4.2 MW | 103 MW | not visible |
| Newport West and Islwyn | 0.3 MW | 22 MW | not visible |
| Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney | 66 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Monmouthshire | 33 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney next door has 66 MW waiting, more than Torfaen's 3.5 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.