Irish Wind Energy Association

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Green Party leader Eamon Ryan said economic evidence had indicated how a fee-and-dividend model of carbon pricing was cash positive for those on lower incomes. Photograph: Alan Betson
Left-wing parties accused of opposing moves to tackle climate change

Sinn Féin and Solidarity-People Before Profit have been accused of opposing progressive measures to tackle climate change by refusing to endorse a “ca(...)

The conference heard that what Ireland lacked, was a policy framework to support offshore. File photograph: Bloomberg
Offshore wind energy key to cutting carbon emissions, forum told

Development of offshore wind energy over the next decade would enable Ireland embrace an electric future and decarbonise its heat, transport and indus(...)

In 2018, wind energy met a record 29 per cent of Irish electricity demand, the IWEA confirmed in its yearly review
EirGrid chief warns of need to increase capacity

Adoption of much more ambitious national targets means the all-Ireland electricity grid will soon need to be able to cater for almost 100 per cent ren(...)

The net cost of wind energy for Irish consumers has amounted to less than €1 per person per year since 2000, according to a new report. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke
Wind energy investment costs consumers less than €1 a year - report

The net cost of wind energy for Irish consumers has amounted to less than €1 per person per year since 2000, according to a new report. The independe(...)

The wind farm at Bruckana on the Laois, Kilkenny, Tipperary borders. The Irish Wind Energy Association says the restrictions outlined in the position paper “have the potential to restrict wind-farm development in 29 per cent of the available land in the Republic of Ireland”. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Wind farms would be banned in a third of Ireland under Air Corps guidelines

Building wind farms would be impossible in almost a third of the country under “deeply worrying” draft guidelines proposed by the Air Corps, the Gover(...)

EIB president Werner Hoyer: “If we cannot stop this trend towards the return of protectionism…we are going to live in a much less comfortable continent and world very soon.”
EIB funding hit by Brexit, corporation tax backlog, and wind energy projects at risk

The European Investment Bank president has warned that “If we cannot stop this trend towards the return of protectionism…we are going to live in a muc(...)

Banks co-funding these projects are worried that if they go ahead and build these wind farms and the March deadline is missed, then they do not qualify for REFIT scheme. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Connection delays may scupper 16 wind energy projects

A total of 16 wind energy projects – with full planning permission and grid connection offers – “are at medium or high risk of not being built”, the I(...)

So far this year, 27.5% of Irish electricity production has come from wind energy. Photograph: iStock
Conference hears of ‘monumental’ opportunity for rural Ireland

The expansion of wind energy generation in Ireland over the 2000-2020 period had an associated net cost of just €1 per household a year, according to (...)

The report recommended an increase wind power, on and offshore, from an expected 5,400 megawatts (MW) in 2020 to 10,000 MW.
Group calls for 70% target for renewable electricity by 2030

A group representing renewable energy providers is calling on the Government to aim for a target of 70 per cent of electricity generation to come from(...)

Galway Wind Park, Ireland’s largest onshore wind farm, which was co-developed by SSE and Coillte in Cloosh Valley, Connemara.
‘The next 10 years are going to see change that we probably cannot imagine’

Spurred on by the crisis that is being caused by climate change, the world’s global energy market is undergoing unprecedented upheaval. And the pace w(...)

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