CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare has 10 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,700 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,830 homes. There is also 22 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 227 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cefn Farm, Mount Road - Battery Energy Storage SysteTec Marina | Battery | 200 MW |
Waiting 1.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council |
| Rhigos Road - Solar FarmRegener8 Power / Environmena | Solar | 3,600 homes 9.9 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
| Pengarnddu Industrial Estate, Dowlais - Hydrogen EleConrad Energy (Developments) Limited | Hydrogen | 8 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
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 Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare 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.