That’s mad, didn’t know they grew up on a farm. They must be babies, very small.
The Brits have done some impressive work on wind power. The Doggerbank development is astonishing in scale. All told it will make them a world leader in wind power. The Irish government have lacked a lot of vision when it comes to these sort of projects. The connectors to Europe should have been built 10 years ago and we should have massive wind farms selling and producing wind power.
Nimbyism
We don’t have a policy to develop wind power afaik. It’s been left to private interests to build and invest.
We don’t have a policy to develop wind power afaik. It’s been left to private interests to build and invest.
Weather too rough, water too deep etc for most of it. Best places in Ireland would be from Cork around to Louth – especially Wicklow, Wexford and Dublin – plenty of sandbanks to build them on – and plenty of people with good connections and deep pockets to object to them too.
We didn’t have planning regulations for marine areas until last year and in the absence of them we haven’t built any offshore (or made appropriate planning regulations). There have been projects ready to go for more than a decade that haven’t been built
They have them in the Irish Sea off North Wales too. Loads of people objected when they were being built but most people have no issues now.
Incompetence and eejits object to it
Looks like space invaders
Because the Gooberment drags their fucking feet on everything that makes sense.
They’ve only JUST approved a program for planning off-shore wind farms on the west coast. PLANNING, not even construction.
The planning regulations got banjaxed. They built a small one off Arklow, but couldn’t expand it.
The regulations are fixed now (honestly, no idea on the technicalities) and there’s plans in place to build a few of them off the east coast. They’re even building a new facility in Rosslare to help build them.
Once that gets up and running, it’ll only a matter of time before they stick a few out west too.
nimby
The English Channel is A LOT shallower than the Atlantic. Also a lot crueler
They’re coming. But the existing offshore windfarms are fixed – in shallow water. There is more energy in the North Atlantic but they will need to be floating — its harder and just coming to maturity.
For reference: we use ~ 6GW of electricity in Ireland (peak). There is ~4 GW wind at the moment, with ~5 GW offshore wind coming by 2030 (off the South and East coasts, fixed). Off the Atlantic there is 30-40 GW potential in Irish waters, 80-120 GW further west and south.
Why don’t we have a rake of them off the east coast though? There’s no good answer for that and we should have.
Pretty sure some large company was trying to but the planning was to awkward and they pulled out.
Because your granny burning turf is the real problem 🙄
Because that would be the sensible thing to do. Instead we build them on our tiny island where land is already limited, and then pat ourselves on the bakc for a “grand auld job”!
Others have pointed out the real logistical challenges of generation in the Atlantic. But that doesn’t really explain why we don’t have more of these elsewhere.
If you want a very visual sense of the difference between us and the UK here, go to Derry and look at the landscape on both sides of the city. You can see loads of turbines in the hills on the UK side, and not even one on the Irish side.
Who wants those ugly ass things on our beautiful west coast. Stick them in Dublin.
See how there’s no waves in that video? That’s why.
26 comments
Atlantic ocean is a crual mistress
Locals object to them
That’s mad, didn’t know they grew up on a farm. They must be babies, very small.
The Brits have done some impressive work on wind power. The Doggerbank development is astonishing in scale. All told it will make them a world leader in wind power. The Irish government have lacked a lot of vision when it comes to these sort of projects. The connectors to Europe should have been built 10 years ago and we should have massive wind farms selling and producing wind power.
Nimbyism
We don’t have a policy to develop wind power afaik. It’s been left to private interests to build and invest.
We don’t have a policy to develop wind power afaik. It’s been left to private interests to build and invest.
Weather too rough, water too deep etc for most of it. Best places in Ireland would be from Cork around to Louth – especially Wicklow, Wexford and Dublin – plenty of sandbanks to build them on – and plenty of people with good connections and deep pockets to object to them too.
We didn’t have planning regulations for marine areas until last year and in the absence of them we haven’t built any offshore (or made appropriate planning regulations). There have been projects ready to go for more than a decade that haven’t been built
They have them in the Irish Sea off North Wales too. Loads of people objected when they were being built but most people have no issues now.
Incompetence and eejits object to it
Looks like space invaders
Because the Gooberment drags their fucking feet on everything that makes sense.
They’ve only JUST approved a program for planning off-shore wind farms on the west coast. PLANNING, not even construction.
The planning regulations got banjaxed. They built a small one off Arklow, but couldn’t expand it.
The regulations are fixed now (honestly, no idea on the technicalities) and there’s plans in place to build a few of them off the east coast. They’re even building a new facility in Rosslare to help build them.
Once that gets up and running, it’ll only a matter of time before they stick a few out west too.
nimby
The English Channel is A LOT shallower than the Atlantic. Also a lot crueler
They’re coming. But the existing offshore windfarms are fixed – in shallow water. There is more energy in the North Atlantic but they will need to be floating — its harder and just coming to maturity.
For reference: we use ~ 6GW of electricity in Ireland (peak). There is ~4 GW wind at the moment, with ~5 GW offshore wind coming by 2030 (off the South and East coasts, fixed). Off the Atlantic there is 30-40 GW potential in Irish waters, 80-120 GW further west and south.
Why aren’t they off Dalkey?
There is, just not in the ocean. [See Galway Windpark](https://www.sserenewables.com/onshore-wind/ireland/galway-wind-park/)
Because the Atlantic is why.
Why don’t we have a rake of them off the east coast though? There’s no good answer for that and we should have.
Pretty sure some large company was trying to but the planning was to awkward and they pulled out.
Because your granny burning turf is the real problem 🙄
Because that would be the sensible thing to do. Instead we build them on our tiny island where land is already limited, and then pat ourselves on the bakc for a “grand auld job”!
Others have pointed out the real logistical challenges of generation in the Atlantic. But that doesn’t really explain why we don’t have more of these elsewhere.
If you want a very visual sense of the difference between us and the UK here, go to Derry and look at the landscape on both sides of the city. You can see loads of turbines in the hills on the UK side, and not even one on the Irish side.
Who wants those ugly ass things on our beautiful west coast. Stick them in Dublin.
See how there’s no waves in that video? That’s why.