Ballymena
Ballymena is a 4.6 MW onshore wind farm in Northern Ireland, operated by Ecotricity. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- Northern Ireland
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 4.6 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Ecotricity
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- BT42 4HZ
- Coordinates
- 54.8728, -6.1986
Location
Map position from the published coordinates. For small sites this can be an approximate point rather than the exact boundary. Map Β© OpenStreetMap contributors.
How Ballymena compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 4.6 MW station would generate roughly 10 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 3,880 homes at 2,700 kWh each. This is an illustrative estimate, not the station's metered output: real generation varies with weather, availability and grid constraints.
Wind farms turn the kinetic energy of the wind into electricity with turbines. Output varies with wind speed. Offshore sites usually see stronger, steadier winds than onshore sites and so generate more per MW of capacity.
All UK wind farms Wind farms in Northern Ireland All run by EcotricityNearby generating sites
- Elginny Β· 23 MW onshore wind farm6.7 km
- Wolf Bog Β· 10 MW onshore wind farm10.7 km
- Millar Farm Β· 7.21 MW solar farm14.8 km
- Elliot's Hill Β· 5 MW onshore wind farm15.7 km
- Corkey Β· 5 MW onshore wind farm19.8 km
- Finvoy Β· 5.96 MW solar farm21.4 km
- Bann Road Β· 45.8 MW solar farm22.2 km
- Crookedstone Β· 4.83 MW solar farm22.5 km
Also operated by Ecotricity
Ecotricity operates 25 sites in the register. Largest first:
Planning history
From the government's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), matched to this site by location, capacity and name.
- Planning status
- Operational
- Site name in planning record
- Ballymena Wind Park Limited
- Developer / operator
- White Young Green Planning
- Planning authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Planning reference
- G/2009/0470/F
- Application submitted
- 24 July 2009
- Permission granted
- 14 April 2010
- Began operating
- 24 January 2013
- Capacity in planning record
- 4.7 MW
- Address
- Michelin Tyre PLC Raceview Road Ballymena BT42 4HZ Northern Ireland, Co. Antrim
- REPD reference
- 2866
Source
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 5.11: power stations in the United Kingdom β operational at end of May 2025.
Capacity is installed capacity as published, not current output. Status reflects the source date, not live operation.
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Last checked by Octary: 15 July 2026
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