Confirmation
that
state-controlled
Bord
Gais
has
the
government’s
blessing
to
build
another
250MW
of
onshore
wind
capacity
by
the
end
of
2014
is
another
major
sign
that
the
Irish
wind
market
is
coming
back
to
life
after
several
years
in
the
doldrums.
Thanks
to
its
2009
acquisition
of
Irish
wind
developer
SWS,
Bord
Gais
has
132
operational
turbines
across
Ireland
–
equivalent
to
about
15%
of
the
country’s
1.7GW
of
installed
capacity.
But
the
Ballymartin
project
is
the
first
it
has
commissioned
on
its
own.
At
6MW,
the
Ballymartin
project
is
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