Upper Bann
Upper Bann has 1.4 MW of clean power (all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,300 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.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tallbridge Road | Wind Onshore | 600 homes | 0.7 MW | 2021-12 | 4.6 yrs |
| Huntly Road | Wind Onshore | 400 homes | 0.5 MW | 2020-09 | 5.9 yrs |
| Ballymagerny Road | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-05 | 2.2 yrs |
Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.
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 →
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