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Lagan Valley
Lagan Valley has 76 MW of renewables running, enough for 28,000 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. 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.
Ranks 486 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Storage System Development in LisburnLisburn Energy Limited | Battery | 150 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Castor Bay Water Treatment Works, Castor Bay Road - NI Water | Solar | 1,800 homes 5 MW |
Waiting 1.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 2 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 Lagan Valley compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 1 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.