West Tyrone
West Tyrone has 84 MW of clean power (all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 74,000 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 493 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pigeon TopDooish, Drumquin, Omagh | Wind Onshore | 24,000 homes | 27.0 MW | 2012-11 | 13.7 yrs |
| Clunahill Wind FarmDrumquin | Wind Onshore | 18,000 homes | 21.0 MW | 2015-02 | 11.5 yrs |
| Craignapapple Wind FarmTownland of Craignagapple aprx 650m west of Legalougha Bridge and approx 200m east of Owenmore Bridge 8.5km east of Strabane, BT82 0SR | Wind Onshore | 12,000 homes | 13.8 MW | 2018-01 | 8.5 yrs |
| GronanGolandun Dolan, Killeter, Castlederg | Wind Onshore | 8,000 homes | 9.2 MW | 2018-12 | 7.6 yrs |
| Cloghfin RoadLands 487M NE 405M NE and 569M, 190 Cloghfin Road, Sixmilecross, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 4,200 homes | 4.8 MW | 2019-04 | 7.3 yrs |
| Segully Road, Drumquin - Wind Turbine615m South East of 30 Segully Road, Drumquin | Wind Onshore | 1,700 homes | 2.0 MW | 2023-12 | 2.6 yrs |
| Power Generation Development in Castlederg270 M North West of 39 Kilclean Road, Castlederg | Wind Onshore | 600 homes | 0.7 MW | 2023-12 | 2.7 yrs |
| Derryallen RoadLands 200m South Of, 22 Derryallen Road, Trillick, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 400 homes | 0.5 MW | 2020-10 | 5.8 yrs |
| Replacement Wind TurbineApprox. 90m SW of 28 Aghnaglea Road | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.4 MW | 2021-12 | 4.7 yrs |
| Craighill RoadApprox. 280m NNE of, 11 Craighill Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2020-02 | 6.4 yrs |
| Barony Road230 Barony Road, Creggan, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2019-06 | 7.1 yrs |
| NewtonstewartApproximately 300m South East, River Road, Newtownstewart, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2021-09 | 4.8 yrs |
| Camlough RoadApprox 800m SW of, 141 Camlough Road, Carrickmore, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2019-04 | 7.3 yrs |
| Concess RoadLand South Of, 26 Concess Road, Victoria Bridge, Strabane, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2021-03 | 5.4 yrs |
| Rockstown RoadApproximately 420M North East, 124 Rockstown Road, Carrickmore, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2020-06 | 6.1 yrs |
| Rosnareen Road632m SE of, 69 Rosnareen Road, Trillick, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 300 homes | 0.3 MW | 2020-09 | 5.9 yrs |
| Erganagh RoadLands 330m South Of, 29 Erganagh Road, Castlederg, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-04 | 5.3 yrs |
| Creggan Road Wind TurbineApprox 390m north west of 145 Creggan Road Carrickmore | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-09 | 4.9 yrs |
| Peacock Road Replacement TurbineApprox. 370M. North West of 99 Peacock Road Strabane | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-12 | 4.6 yrs |
| Lislafferty Road Wind TurbineApproximately 400m south west of 20 Lislafferty Road Newtownstewart | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-08 | 4.9 yrs |
| Camlough RoadApprox. 380m West of 98 Camlough Road | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-04 | 4.3 yrs |
| Wind Turbine in PlumbridgeNorth East of 103 Ligford Road, Plumbridge | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| Power Generation Development in Castlederg133m North West of 20 Folliard Road, Castlederg | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
| Lislafferty Road Replacement TurbineApproximately 470m south west of 20 Lislafferty Road Newtownstewart | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-08 | 4.9 yrs |
| Aghnaglea Road (relplacement turbine)Approx. 30m East of, 17 Aghnaglea Road, Sixmilecross, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2019-10 | 6.8 yrs |
| Ballybrack RoadLands appr. 140m north of, 19 Ballybrack Road, Loughmacrory, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2019-05 | 7.3 yrs |
| Loughan RoadSite Approx 552m North West Of, 22 Loughan Road, Dunamanagh, Strabane, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2021-04 | 5.3 yrs |
| Barony Road242 Barony Road, Creggan, Omagh, Co Tyrone | Wind Onshore | 200 homes | 0.2 MW | 2020-10 | 5.8 yrs |
| 20 Crannoge Road - Wind TurbineApproximate 285M East Of 20 Crannoge Road, Beragh | Wind Onshore | — | — MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
Plus 2 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skreen Road - Battery Energy Storage System | 100 MW | in planning | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| Battery Energy Storage System Development in Drumquin | 88 MW | in planning | could supply ≈308,000 homes |
| Classic Marble Showers, Omagh Road - Battery Energy Storage | 73 MW | approved, not built 2026 | could supply ≈256,000 homes |
| Trench Road, Killymallaght Substation - Battery Energy Storage | 50 MW | in planning | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Battery Energy Storage System Facility Development in Pomeroy | 48 MW | approved, not built 2026 | could supply ≈168,000 homes |
| Doogary Road, Omagh - Battery Storage | 40 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈140,000 homes |
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 →
What has Órfhlaith Begley said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →