CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
South Antrim
South Antrim has 111 MW of clean power (mostly solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 64,000 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 42 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 57 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carncome, Lislunnan Road - Battery Energy StorageValor Power Limited | Battery | 150 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Battery Energy Storage System Development in BallymeGreen Frog Power | Battery | 79 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Kells Solar FarmElgin Energy EsCo | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Waiting 11.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Antrim and Newtownabbey Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 14 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 South Antrim compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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
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.