CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
East Antrim
East Antrim has 17 MW of clean power (all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 15,000 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. Northern Ireland is on the all-Ireland grid, so Britain's grid bottlenecks do not reach bills here in the same way. There is also 56 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 208 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power Generation Development in IslandmageeHeron Storage Limited | Battery | 100 MW |
Waiting 3.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Mid and East Antrim Council |
| Quarterland Road, Islandmagee - Battery StorageSolo Renewables Ltd | Battery | 75 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Unshinagh Wind Farm Development in CarnloughRenewable Energy Systems (RES) | Onshore wind | 51,000 homes 59 MW |
Waiting 4.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Mid and East Antrim Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 9 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How East Antrim compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 2 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.