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Caerfyrddin

MP: Ann Davies (Plaid Cymru) Wales Data to July 2026

Caerfyrddin has 7 MW of clean power (mostly onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 6,300 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,938 homes. There is also 102 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.

Ranks 244 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
MOD Pendine, Llanmiloe - Solar PanelsQinetiQ Battery
8.8 MW
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company
Tymaen Farm, Rhos - Solar PanelsCarmarthenshire County Council Solar 1,800 homes
4.9 MW
Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Carmarthenshire Council
Mynydd PencarregEnergiekontor UK Onshore wind 4,000 homes
4.6 MW
Approved 10 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company

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