Irish Wind Energy Association

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Experts have calculated that, by the end of 2020, consumers and businesses will have paid an extra €1.9bn this century to fund price supports for wind-generated electricity
The cost of saving the planet is rising – and has been for some time

In the 12 months to the end of October 2020, households and employers will contribute about €150 million to wind farms and other renewable generators (...)

Energia Group’s Ian Thom: “We’re looking at a number of sites for offshore. I think most of it is going to be off the east coast.” Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
‘We are an archetype of the modern European utility’

“Policy is catching up with what we have been doing as an organisation,” says Energia Group chief executive Ian Thom. He is talking about the €3 billi(...)

Fossil-fuel emissions. Renewable Energy Ireland has describing the plan as “a road map for turning Ireland into a climate-change leader”. Photograph: Getty Images
Friends of the Earth: Climate breakdown plan is 'biggest innovation' in 20 years

The Government’s long-awaited plan to address the threat of climate breakdown “is the biggest innovation in Irish climate policy in 20 years”, accordi(...)

The total available capacity of the Republic’s wind energy is now 3,700 MW. Photograph: iStock
Wind energy accounted for 37% of State energy in first quarter

Wind provided 37 per cent of the State’s electricity in the first three months of 2019, a report from a wind energy lobby group has found. The Irish(...)

Fred O’Sullivan (right), chairman of the Sliabh Luachra Wind Awareness Group, with Peter and Caroline Cooke at the wind farm at Barna, near Scartaglen in Co Kerry. Photograph: Valerie O’Sullivan
Kerry wind farm expansion generates opposition

Two years ago, former president Mary Robinson narrated a video to mark the 25th anniversary of the Irish Wind Energy Association, pointing out that Ir(...)

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(...)

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