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.
Ranks 380 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Bann | 1.4 MW | 9.8 MW | not visible |
| South Down | 0.3 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Newry and Armagh | 2.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 20 MW | 221 MW | not visible |
| Lagan Valley | 0.5 MW | 76 MW | not visible |
| Mid Ulster | 48 MW | 34 MW | not visible |
Mid Ulster next door has 48 MW waiting, more than Upper Bann's 1.4 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 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.