Mid Ulster
Mid Ulster has 48 MW of clean power (almost all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 42,000 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 29 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 145 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dungannon Energy Storage SystemLow Carbon Storage Ireland | Battery | 50 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref LA09/2018/0803/F |
| EV Charging Station Development in ToomebridgeHeron Storage Limited | Battery | 45 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA09/2024/0937/F |
| Corlacky Hill Wind FarmRenewable Energy Systems (RES) | Onshore wind | 36 MW32,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA09/2016/0232/F |
| Cullion wind farmABO Wind | Onshore wind | 25 MW22,000 homes | Waiting 7.0 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Mid Ulster Council · planning ref LA09/2019/0990/F |
| Battery Energy Storage System Development in MoneymoreJ D Excavations Tyrone Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA09/2024/1517/F |
| Brockaghboy Wind Farm (Further Extension)Brockaghboy Windfarm | Onshore wind | 10 MW8,700 homes | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA09/2019/1386/F |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Ulster | 48 MW | 34 MW | not visible |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 20 MW | 221 MW | not visible |
| Upper Bann | 1.4 MW | 9.8 MW | not visible |
| Lagan Valley | 0.5 MW | 76 MW | not visible |
| South Antrim | 111 MW | 88 MW | not visible |
| West Tyrone | 84 MW | 493 MW | not visible |
South Antrim next door has 111 MW waiting, more than Mid Ulster's 48 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.