Energia’s Donegal windfarm goes into production
Energia’s €145 million Donegal windfarm has started supplying renewable energy, with the potential to provide enough energy to power 50,000 homes. At 95MW, the wind farm in Meenadreen is the largest of its kind in the country. Ireland’s second-largest wind farm is in Knocknacummer in Co Cork, which has a capacity of 87.5MW across its 35 turbines.
According to Energia, the output of this latest wind farm will be able to power up to 50,000 homes, thereby reducing Ireland’s CO2 emissions by 100,000 tonnes per year. This isn’t likely to make much difference to Ireland’s estimated CO2 emissions in 2015, which totalled close to 60m tonnes for the year.
Peter Baillie, managing director of Energia Renewables, said: “Since 2008, Energia has invested over €350m in developing and constructing new wind farms. We are very proud to have delivered this large-scale project and to finally see it start supplying energy to homes and businesses around the island of Ireland.”
“We’d like to thank the local community at Leghowney for their support, and are delighted that this Meenadreen wind farm will be providing further community funding for the local areas and local authority rates for the lifetime of the wind farms.”
