CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Newport West and Islwyn
Newport West and Islwyn has 22 MW of renewables running, enough for 10,000 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 43,137 homes.
Ranks 528 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mynydd Llanhilleth - Wind FarmPennant Walters | Onshore wind | 30,000 homes 34 MW |
Waiting 1.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Welsh Government (NSIP) Council |
| Upper Pant-Ysgawen Farm, Maes-Yr-Haf Lane - Battery Voltwise Power Holdings Limited | Battery | 28 MW |
Waiting 1.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Caerphilly Council |
| Trecelyn Wind FarmPennant Walters Limited | Onshore wind | 17,000 homes 20 MW |
Waiting 2.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Welsh Government (NSIP) Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 3 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 West and Islwyn 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.