Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Fermanagh and South Tyrone has 20 MW of clean power (all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 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 221 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 197 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derrymeen Battery Energy Storage SystemSSE Renewables | Battery | 100 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref LA09/2024/0461/F |
| Battery Energy Storage System Development in TyroneHeron Storage Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA10/2024/0294/F |
| Omagh Road, Garvaghy - Battery Energy StorageHeron Storage Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ZG2024/1152/PAS |
| Battery Energy Storage System in NewmillsExergy Solutions Limited | Battery | 24 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA09/2024/0451/F |
| Shantavy ScotchBrookfield Renewable | Onshore wind | 14 MW12,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA09/2020/0880/F |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 20 MW | 221 MW | not visible |
| Newry and Armagh | 2.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Upper Bann | 1.4 MW | 9.8 MW | not visible |
| Mid Ulster | 48 MW | 34 MW | not visible |
| West Tyrone | 84 MW | 493 MW | not visible |
West Tyrone next door has 84 MW waiting, more than Fermanagh and South Tyrone's 20 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
- 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.