CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Belfast West
Belfast West has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Northern Ireland is on the all-Ireland grid, so Britain's grid bottlenecks do not reach bills here in the same way.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colinglen Road BatteryHannahstown BESS | Battery | 50 MW | Waiting 6.0 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Belfast Council · planning ref LA04/2020/1724/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast West | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Lagan Valley | 0.5 MW | 76 MW | not visible |
| Belfast South and Mid Down | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Belfast North | 0.2 MW | 3.8 MW | not visible |
| South Antrim | 111 MW | 88 MW | not visible |
South Antrim next door has 111 MW waiting, more than Belfast West's 0 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.