CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Alyn and Deeside
Alyn and Deeside has 32 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 12,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,775 homes.
Ranks 171 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyn Y Coed - Battery Energy Storage SystemNatPower UK | Battery | 500 MW |
Waiting 1.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Flintshire Council |
| Bretton Hall Solar Farm (Wales)YnNi Newydd (New Energy Co-op) | Solar | 5,800 homes 16 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Bretton Hall Solar Farm (England)YnNi Newydd (New Energy Co-op) | Solar | 5,100 homes 14 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 6 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How Alyn and Deeside compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.