Newry and Armagh
Newry and Armagh has 2.6 MW of clean power (all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,300 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.
Ranks 315 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portadown RoadLow Carbon Storage Ireland | Battery | 50 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref LA08/2018/0851/F |
| Solar Farm Development in MagheralinRenewable Energy Systems RES ltd (Beaufort) | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA08/2024/0259/F |
| Vestry RoadHill Power | Onshore wind | 1.5 MW1,300 homes | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA08/2018/1648/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newry and Armagh | 2.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| South Down | 0.3 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 20 MW | 221 MW | not visible |
| Upper Bann | 1.4 MW | 9.8 MW | not visible |
Fermanagh and South Tyrone next door has 20 MW waiting, more than Newry and Armagh's 2.6 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
- 1 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.