North Antrim
North Antrim has 22 MW of clean power (all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 19,000 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 119 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corkey Windfarm (repowering)Corkey Windfarm, Corkey Road, Approx 19km North of Ballymena, Ballymena | Wind Onshore | 17,000 homes | 20.0 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
| 93 Caddy Road - Wind Turbine93 Caddy Road Andraid, Randalstown | Wind Onshore | 700 homes | 0.8 MW | 2023-12 | 2.7 yrs |
| Islandranny RoadApprox 140m, 23 Islandranny Road, Bushmills, Co Antrim | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2019-06 | 7.1 yrs |
| Stroan RoadApproximately 100m West Of, 37 Stroan Road, Dervock, Ballymoney | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2022-06 | 4.1 yrs |
| Moyarget RoadLand located approximately 682, 59 Moyarget Road, Ballycastle, Co Antrim | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2022-04 | 4.3 yrs |
| Carmagrim Road450m south east of, 29a Carmagrim Road, Portglenone, Ballymena, Co Antrim | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-04 | 5.3 yrs |
| Replacement Wind Turbineapprox. 215m s/e of 10 Gillistown Road | Wind Onshore | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2021-07 | 5.0 yrs |
| Drumack Lane Replacement TurbineApproximately 220 metres north of No.16 Drumack Lane Rasharkin | Wind Onshore | — | — MW | 2022-02 | 4.4 yrs |
Plus 3 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Storage System Installation in Rasharkin | 100 MW | in planning | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
What this page does not show
Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.
Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.
Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →
What has Jim Allister said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →