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.
Ranks 25 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 in Development in ClaudyBallyarton Energy Limited | Battery | 75 MW | Waiting 3.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Derry City and Strabane Council · planning ref LA11/2022/1182/F |
| Evishagaran Wind FarmERG UK Holding | Onshore wind | 47 MW41,000 homes | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA01/2018/1151/F |
| Dunbeg South Wind FarmRenewable Energy Systems (RES) / Innagreen Investments | Onshore wind | 30 MW26,000 homes | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA01/2018/0200/F |
| Brishey Wind FarmABO Wind | Onshore wind | 29 MW25,000 homes | Waiting 3.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Causeway Coast and Glens Council · planning ref LA01/2023/0008/F |
| Rigged Hill Wind Farm (Repowering)Scottish Power Renewables | Onshore wind | 28 MW24,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA01/2019/0890/F |
| Dunmore Wind Farm - extensionTCI Renewables | Onshore wind | 24 MW21,000 homes | Approved 8 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref B/2013/0241/F |
| DungivenRenewable Energy Systems (RES) | Onshore wind | 24 MW21,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA01/2019/0922/F |
| Ballyhanedin Wind FarmGaelectric Developments | Onshore wind | 24 MW21,000 homes | Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref A/2014/0630/F |
| Dunbeg South Wind Farm - ExtensionRenewable Energy Systems (RES) / Innagreen Investments | Onshore wind | 17 MW15,000 homes | Waiting 21 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Causeway Coast and Glens Council · planning ref LA01/2024/1221/F |
| Barr Cregg Wind FarmRenewable Energy Systems (RES) | Onshore wind | 13 MW11,000 homes | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref A/2012/0401/F |
| Dunbeg ExtensionGaelectric | Onshore wind | 9 MW7,900 homes | Approved 9 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA01/2016/0061/F |
| 62 Muldonagh Road, Claudy - Wind TurbineUnknown | Onshore wind | 8.8 MW7,700 homes | Waiting 3.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Causeway Coast and Glens Council · planning ref LA11/2023/1754/F |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Londonderry | 176 MW | 255 MW | not visible |
| Mid Ulster | 48 MW | 34 MW | not visible |
| West Tyrone | 84 MW | 493 MW | not visible |
| North Antrim | 22 MW | 181 MW | not visible |
| Foyle | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
East Londonderry has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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
- 3 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.