Ynys Môn
Ynys Môn has 95 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 40,000 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, £2.8m across the constituency's 30,822 homes. There is also 31 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 72 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrhos Works - Battery Energy Storage SystemAnglesey Land Holdings Limited | Battery | 349 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref OP/2023/8 |
| Carrog Ganol, Rhosgoch - Battery Energy Storage SystemBoom Developments Limited | Battery | 300 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref FPL/2023/218 |
| Alaw Môn Solar Farm - Solar Farm & Energy Storage FacilityEnso Energy Limited | Solar | 160 MW58,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DNS/3274702 |
| Porth WenEDF Energy Renewables | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20C310B/EIA/RE |
| Parc Solar TraffwllLow Carbon | Solar | 35 MW13,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref DNS/3217391 |
| Townland of Meenakeeran, Tullycar Road - Wind Farm & Battery StorageMeenakeeran Wind Farm Limited | Onshore wind | 24 MW21,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Isle of Anglesey Council · planning ref LA11/2025/0701/F |
| Rhyd-y-Groes Wind Farm - repoweringE.On / Eurus (TPG Wind) | Onshore wind | 9.9 MW8,700 homes | Approved 10 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20C102L/EIA/RE |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ynys Môn | 95 MW | 58 MW | not visible |
| Bangor Aberconwy | 18 MW | 214 MW | not visible |
| Clwyd North | 0 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Dwyfor Meirionnydd | 1.9 MW | 49 MW | not visible |
Ynys Môn has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- 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
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.