CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Wrexham
Wrexham has 16 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 5,900 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,305 homes.
Ranks 209 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plas Power Estate Solar FarmLightsource BP | Solar | 57 MW21,000 homes | Waiting 2.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref DNS/3253253 |
| Plas Power Estate Solar FarmLightsource BP | Battery | 57 MW | Waiting 2.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Welsh Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref DNS/3253253 |
| Little Llwyn Onn - Solar Farm & Battery StorageNovus Renewable Services Limited | Battery | 16 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2022/0541 |
| Little Llwyn Onn - Solar Farm & Battery StorageNovus Renewable Services Limited | Solar | 9.9 MW3,600 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2022/0541 |
| Maelor Gasworks - Solar Farm & Battery StorageNovus Renewable Services Limited | Solar | 5.7 MW2,100 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/2021/0676 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrexham | 16 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr | 151 MW | 181 MW | not visible |
| North Shropshire | 11 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| Chester South and Eddisbury | 19 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Clwyd East | 0 MW | 1.8 MW | not visible |
| Alyn and Deeside | 32 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr next door has 151 MW waiting, more than Wrexham's 16 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.