{"id":102693,"date":"2025-10-04T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/102693\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:26:12","slug":"plans-lodged-for-new-biogas-energy-plant-in-tipperary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/102693\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans lodged for new biogas energy plant in Tipperary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plans have been lodged for a biogas energy facility in Tipperary. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cb20f9c3-238d-4644-bec8-9b1cc6cdd267.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Plans have been lodged for a biogas energy facility in Tipperary. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tipperary could be set to get a new biogas renewable energy facility under plans that have been lodged with the local authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Annaholty Green Energy Limited has applied to Tipperary County Council for planning permission to build the biogas plant in Annaholty, near Birdhill, in the north of the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Under the plans, the company want to build two anaerobic digesters, along with a secondary storage digester tank, a digestate storage tank, two manure reception tanks, one desulphurisation unit, a small tank, and two larger tanks, as well as two pasteurization tanks, and two cooling tanks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A pump room with an air filtration system, a mixing tank, as well as offices and workshops, along with various other tanks, a rainwater harvesting system, and a two-storey office building also form part of the plans put before the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Annaholty Green Energy are a sister company to GreenGas, who operate another anaerobic digester plant in neighbouring Limerick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The company set up the biogas plant in Shanagolden in Limerick in 2010, aiming to produce biomethane for direct injection into the national gas grid, which the planned Tipperary plant would also do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Annaholty Green Energy hope that the proposed new facility in Tipperary will contribute to Ireland\u2019s clean energy transition helping to \u201csignificantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by replacing fossil fuels with a sustainable alternative,\u201d their website says.<\/p>\n<p> Follow Independent Tipperary on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IndependentTipperary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;The project has the capacity to generate up to 40 GWh of renewable gas each year\u2014enough to supply approximately 3,200 homes with clean, locally produced energy,\u201d the company added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tipperary County Council is due to decide on the application by November 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Funded by the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans have been lodged for a biogas energy facility in Tipperary. 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