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.
Ranks 191 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Storage System Installation in RasharkinRenewable Energy Systems (RES) | Battery | 100 MW | Waiting 17 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Causeway Coast and Glens Council · planning ref LA01/2025/0181/F |
| Corkey Windfarm (repowering)ScottishPower Renewables | Onshore wind | 20 MW17,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA01/2019/0772/F |
| Solar PV Development in BallymenaHHT Management Limited | Solar | 2.5 MW900 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA02/2024/0352/F |
| Solar PV Energy Development in BallymenaHHT Management Limited | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA02/2024/0353/F |
| Battery Energy Storage System in BallycastleHHT Renewables Ltd | Battery | 1 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref LA01/2023/1223/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Antrim | 22 MW | 181 MW | not visible |
| South Antrim | 111 MW | 88 MW | not visible |
| Mid Ulster | 48 MW | 34 MW | not visible |
| East Antrim | 17 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| East Londonderry | 176 MW | 255 MW | not visible |
East Londonderry next door has 176 MW waiting, more than North Antrim's 22 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.