Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr has 151 MW of clean power (almost all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 130,000 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 43,167 homes. There is also 168 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llandinam Windfarm Repowering and Extension | Wind Onshore | 89,000 homes | 102.0 MW | 2015-09 | 10.9 yrs |
| Carno 3 | Wind Onshore | 39,000 homes | 45.0 MW | 2017-05 | 9.2 yrs |
| The Gaer - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 700 homes | 1.9 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Coppice Farm, Pen-Rhos - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.1 MW | 2023-01 | 3.5 yrs |
| Glandulas Mawr Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2019-06 | 7.1 yrs |
| Rallt Carno - Solar Arrays | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-04 | 3.3 yrs |
| Buttington Old Hall, Buttington - Solar PV Arrays | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
Plus 3 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronwylfa Road, Rhostyllen - Energy Storage System | 400 MW | in planning | could supply ≈1,402,000 homes |
What this page does not show
Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.
Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.
Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →
What has Steve Witherden said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →