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Belfast West

MP: Paul Maskey (Sinn Féin) Northern Ireland Data to July 2026

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 developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Colinglen Road BatteryHannahstown BESS Battery
50 MW
Waiting 6.0 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Belfast Council

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