East Londonderry
East Londonderry has 176 MW of clean power (all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 154,000 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 255 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evishagaran Wind FarmLands 600 metres south of, 175 Gelvin Road, Dungiven, and east of the American Road, Limavady | Wind Onshore | 41,000 homes | 46.8 MW | 2019-04 | 7.3 yrs |
| Dunbeg South Wind FarmLands approx 6km N E of, Limavady Road, Derry, Co Londonderry | Wind Onshore | 26,000 homes | 29.7 MW | 2020-12 | 5.6 yrs |
| Rigged Hill Wind Farm (Repowering)Existing Rigged Hill Windfarm, Market Street, Limavady, Co Londonderry | Wind Onshore | 24,000 homes | 28.0 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Dunmore Wind Farm - extensionLargantea and Dunmore townlands Bolea Road 8km north-east of Limavady | Wind Onshore | 21,000 homes | 24.0 MW | 2018-06 | 8.1 yrs |
| Ballyhanedin Wind FarmLands 650 metres east of 57A Ballyhanedin Road Ballyhanedin 1.5 kilometres north west of Feeny | Wind Onshore | 21,000 homes | 24.0 MW | 2017-04 | 9.3 yrs |
| Barr Cregg Wind FarmBallymaclanigan and Slaghtmanus, near Claudy in County Londonderry | Wind Onshore | 11,000 homes | 12.6 MW | 2019-08 | 7.0 yrs |
| Dunbeg ExtensionOn lands directly North of A37/ Broad Road to the East of 156 Broad Road and to the West of the operational Dunbeg Windfarm in the townland of Dunbeg Limavady. | Wind Onshore | 7,900 homes | 9.0 MW | 2017-04 | 9.3 yrs |
| Slaghtmanus RoadLands 440m East of, 35 Slaghtmanus Road, Derry, Co Londonderry | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2020-03 | 6.4 yrs |
| Terrydoo Road 1Approximately 654m East SE Of, 34 Terrydoo Road, Limavady, Co Londonderry | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Mullan RoadLands approx 455m NW of, 15 Mullan Road, Kilrea, Coleraine, Co Londonderry | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2021-06 | 5.1 yrs |
| Curragh Road70 Curragh Road, Dungiven, Derry, Co Londonderry | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
| Terrydoo Road 2Approx 800m East South East Of, 34 Terrydoo Road, Limavady | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Windyhill RoadLands 187m South Of, 223 Windyhill Road, Macosquin, Coleraine, Co Londonderry | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2020-11 | 5.7 yrs |
Plus 3 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power Generation in Development in Claudy | 75 MW | in planning | could supply ≈263,000 homes |
What this page does not show
Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.
Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.
Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →
What has Mr Gregory Campbell said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →