CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Newport East
Newport East has 4.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,500 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,644 homes.
Ranks 274 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uskmouth Power Station - Battery StorageSimec Atlantic Energy Uskmouth Power Station | Battery | 230 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
| Uskmouth Power Station, West Nash Road - Battery StoAW1 Energy Storage Limited | Battery | 120 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
| Craig y Perthi Solar FarmJBM Solar Projects Limited | Solar | 36,000 homes 100 MW |
Refused by Welsh Government (NSIP) Council in 2025Who can move it: Welsh Government (NSIP) Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 10 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 Newport 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.