CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
South Down
South Down has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. 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 525 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gruggandoo Wind FarmABO Wind | Onshore wind | 35,000 homes 40 MW |
Waiting 11.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Newry, Mourne and Down Council |
| Solar PV Energy Development in NewryHHT Management Limited | Solar | 700 homes 2 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 2 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 Down compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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
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.