CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Cardiff East
Cardiff East has 13 MW of renewables running, enough for 5,800 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. 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 43,227 homes.
Ranks 512 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ipswich Road, Cardiff - Battery StorageGreen Frog Power 214 Limited | Battery | 93 MW |
Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Mor Hafren ERFMor Hafren Biopower | EfW Incineration | 15 MW |
Refused by Welsh Government (NSIP) Council in 2021Who can move it: Welsh Government (NSIP) Council |
| Panasonic Manufacturing, Pentwyn - BESSPanasonic Manufacturing UK | Battery | 1.1 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
What else is in the briefing
- All 4 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 Cardiff East compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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
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.