The strategy comes just a month after Dublin launched the long-delayed second round of its feed-in tariff (Refit 2), and is yet another signal that the centre-right coalition elected last year genuinely views Ireland’s wind and marine resources as one of the clearest roads out of the economic abyss.
The policy document establishes five “strategic goals” for the end of the decade, including adding more on- and offshore wind capacity; building a thriving bioenergy sector; making Ireland a leading light in ocean-energy research; boosting the use of biofuels and electric vehicles; and upgrading and extending the grid to allow for ever-higher levels of renewables penetration.
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