Three developers – Bord na Mona, Mainstream Renewable Power and ElementPower – had come forward with proposals to build onshore wind farms in Irelandfor gigawatt-scale export to the UK.
Large plants in Ireland’s rural Midlands couldhelp the UK meet its 2020 clean-power targets while also generating much-neededincome for the Irish export economy, it was argued.
But those plans rested on an agreement betweenthe two governments over the fine detail of the arrangement – not least theeligibility of Irish power plants for UK renewables incentives.
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