Belfast South and Mid Down
Belfast South and Mid Down has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisnabreeny RoadEnergia Group | Battery | 36 MW | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA05/2019/0675/F |
| Solar PV Energy Alterations in BelfastHHT Management Limited | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Waiting 2.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Belfast Council · planning ref LA03/2024/0255/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast South and Mid Down | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Strangford | 0.3 MW | 6 MW | not visible |
| Lagan Valley | 0.5 MW | 76 MW | not visible |
| Belfast West | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Belfast East | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Belfast North | 0.2 MW | 3.8 MW | not visible |
Lagan Valley next door has 0.5 MW waiting, more than Belfast South and Mid Down's 0.2 MW.
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
- 1 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.