“When you get into the offshore projects, you’re in the gigawatt scale, so there’s factor of 10 in terms of the amount of electricity produced from one offshore wind farm, compared to onshore wind farms, just because they’re so much bigger,” said Paul Doherty, managing director at Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions, which has been working on offshore wind projects outside of Ireland for the last decade. “In terms of our 2030 targets, it’s the only way we’re going to be able to deliver on those promises.” The ESB-Equinor plans include a floating turbine 35km off the coast of Kerry and Clare, near the decommissioned Moneypoint coal-fired station, Ireland’s largest electricity plant.