Bord Gais finishes first in-house project as Irish wind warms up

Ireland’s Bord Gais has commissioned the first wind farm it developed in-house, with energy minister Pat Rabbitte emphasising that the Ballymartin project is only the beginning of a €400m ($526m) investment programme set to run over the next three years.

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 Log in to read complete article.

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