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Ceredigion Preseli

MP: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru) Wales Data to July 2026

Ceredigion Preseli has 1.7 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 700 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 40,895 homes. There is also 80 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.

Ranks 361 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Lluest y Gwynt Wind FarmStatkraft UK/Eco2 Onshore wind 44,000 homes
50 MW
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Welsh Government (NSIP) Council

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