This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in Northern Ireland, sorted by type and name, with installed capacity (May 2011).
Note that the Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics (DUKES) maintains a comprehensive list of United Kingdom power stations, accessible through the Department of Energy and Climate Change here.
A red background denotes a power station that is no longer operational.
| Name | Operator | Location | Type | Capacity (MW) |
Commissioned | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballylumford A | AES Corporation | Islandmagee, County Antrim | Coal | 660 | 1943 | 1974 |
| Ballylumford B | AES Corporation | Islandmagee, County Antrim | Oil | 960 | 1968 | 2018 |
| Ballylumford C | EPUKI | Islandmagee, County Antrim | CCGT | 616 | 2003 | - |
| Kilroot power station | EPUKI | Kilroot, County Antrim | Oil/Coal | 662 | 1981 | 2023 |
| Kilroot (new) | EPUKI | Kilroot, County Antrim | CCGT | 700 | 2024 | - |
| Belfast East[1] | Belfast Corporation | Belfast | Coal | 174.75 | 1959 | 1959 |
| Belfast West[1] | Belfast Corporation | Belfast | Coal | 240 | 1959 | 2002 |
| East Bridge Street[1] | Belfast Corporation | Belfast | Coal | 12 | operating 1959 | 1959 |
| Londonderry Corporation[1] | Londonderry Corporation | Londonderry | Coal | 18 | 1894 | 1959 |
| Curran Point[1] | Northern Ireland Electricity Board | Larne | Coal | 5.7 | operating 1959 | 1959 |
| Limavady[1] | Northern Ireland Electricity Board | Roe Valley, Limavady | Hydro electric | 0.072[2][3] | 1896[4] | 1963 |
| Gruig | RES-Gen Ltd | Loughguile, County Antrim | Wind | 25 | 2009 | - |
| Coolkeeragh power station | Northern Ireland Electricity Board | Derry, County Londonderry | Oil | 1959 | 2005 | |
| Coolkeeragh power station | ESBI | Derry, County Londonderry | CCGT | 408 | 2005 | - |
| Slieve Divena | Infinis Windfarm* | Garvaghy, County Tyrone | Wind | 30 | 2009 | - |
| Lendrum's Bridge | RES-Gen Ltd | Fintona, County Tyrone | Wind | 13 | 2000 | - |
| Altahullion | RES-Gen Ltd | Limavady, County Londonderry | Wind | 26 | 2003 | - |
| Altahullion2 | RES-Gen Ltd | Limavady, County Londonderry | Wind | 12 | 2007 | - |
| Lough Hill | RES-Gen Ltd | Drumquin, County Tyrone | Wind | 8 | 2007 | - |
| Bessy Bell 1 | E.On UK | Newtownstewart, County Tyrone | Wind | 5 | 1995 | - |
| Bessy Bell 2 | E.On UK | Newtownstewart, County Tyrone | Wind | 9 | 2008 | - |
| Bin Mountain | Airtricity | Benaughlin Mountain, County Fermanagh | Wind | 9 | 2007 | - |
| Tappaghan | Airtricity | Lack, County Fermanagh | Wind | 29 | 2005 | - |
| Callagheen | Scottish Power | Belleek, County Fermanagh | Wind | 17 | 2006 | - |
| Corkey | Scottish Power | Cloughmills, County Antrim | Wind | 5 | 1994 | - |
| Elliots Hill | Scottish Power | Ballyclare, County Antrim | Wind | 5 | 1995 | - |
| Rigged Hill | Scottish Power | Limavady, County Londonderry | Wind | 5 | 1994 | - |
| Wolf Bog | Scottish Power | Ballyclare, County Antrim | Wind | 10 | 2008 | - |
| SeaGen | Marine Current Turbines | Strangford Lough, County Down | Tidal | 1.2 | 2008 | 2016 |
*Joint venture with Scottish and Southern Energy
Northern Ireland was home to the world's first commercially viable tidal stream generator.[5] Trials were begun in Scotland then in England, before Marine Current Turbines installed the thousand-tonne[6] SeaGen turbine at the mouth of Strangford Lough. The lough was chosen because it has one of the fastest tidal flows in the world. The installation went live and was connected to the grid in mid-December, 2008, injecting an extra 1.2 megawatts of electricity.[7]
The turbine is scheduled to produce power for five years, though Marine Current Turbines were reported to have asked for an extension beyond their 2013 contract.[8] By March 2010, the turbine had passed an operating time of over 1,000 hours - a first for any marine energy device.[8]
Impact to the environment was closely scrutinised.[6] The device, built in Belfast's famous Harland and Wolff shipyard, is rigged with a sonar device which stops the motion of the rotor blades when it detects marine lifeform near it. While there has been no negative affect to the environment - a special protected wildlife area - it has been noticed that porpoises stop communicating while passing the device.[8]
