Belfast North
Belfast North has 4 MW of renewables running, enough for 1,400 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. Northern Ireland is on the all-Ireland grid, so Britain's grid bottlenecks do not reach bills here in the same way.
Ranks 535 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anaerobic Digestion PlantEnergia Hydrogen Limited | Anaerobic Digestion | 4.1 MW | Refused by Belfast Council in 2021Who can move it: Belfast Council · planning ref LA04/2019/1540/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast North | 0.2 MW | 3.8 MW | not visible |
| Belfast South and Mid Down | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Belfast West | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Belfast East | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| South Antrim | 111 MW | 88 MW | not visible |
| East Antrim | 17 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
South Antrim next door has 111 MW waiting, more than Belfast North's 0.2 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 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.