Elginny
Elginny is a 23 MW onshore wind farm in Northern Ireland, operated by Capital Dynamics UK. 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
- 23 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Capital Dynamics UK
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- BT43 7GZ
- Coordinates
- 54.9326, -6.1929
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 Elginny compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 23 MW station would generate roughly 52 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 19,400 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 Capital Dynamics UKNearby generating sites
- Ballymena Β· 4.6 MW onshore wind farm6.7 km
- Corkey Β· 5 MW onshore wind farm13.7 km
- Wolf Bog Β· 10 MW onshore wind farm16.0 km
- Altaveedan Β· 18 MW onshore wind farm17.1 km
- Finvoy Β· 5.96 MW solar farm19.5 km
- Bann Road Β· 45.8 MW solar farm20.6 km
- Millar Farm Β· 7.21 MW solar farm21.5 km
- Elliot's Hill Β· 5 MW onshore wind farm22.0 km
Also operated by Capital Dynamics UK
Capital Dynamics UK 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
- Elginny Hill
- Developer / operator
- Brookfields (Antrim Wind Energy)
- Planning authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Planning reference
- G/2011/0041/F
- Application submitted
- 15 March 2011
- Permission granted
- 13 November 2014
- Construction started
- 15 March 2017
- Began operating
- 15 March 2018
- Capacity in planning record
- 22 MW
- Address
- Carncoagh Hill, Elginny Hill, Clontrace Hill, Broughshane,, Co. Antrim
- REPD reference
- 4563
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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