CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Torfaen
Torfaen has 3.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,241 homes.
Ranks 288 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mynydd Maen - Wind FarmRES Limited | Onshore wind | 48,000 homes 55 MW |
Waiting 1.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Welsh Government (NSIP) Council |
| Pentre Bach Solar FarmElgin Energy EsCo Ltd | Solar | 7,300 homes 20 MW |
Waiting 1.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Welsh Government (NSIP) Council |
| Ty Coch Hollybush WayTorfaen CBC | Solar | 1,100 homes 3 MW |
Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
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 Torfaen 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.