Thanks to its island location, Ireland has a coastline of 1,448 kilometres and almost ten times as much sea area as land mass. Nevertheless, the country so far paid little attention to the use of offshore wind energy. But now the go-ahead has been given.
Ireland is not using its potential! All experts agreed that the island has a pipeline of up to 1 gigawatt in offshore wind until 2020. Further three gigawatts would be possible by 2030. In the past though not much happened.
But last year the time had come: the Irish government