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Oriel Windfarm holding another series of public consultation events in January and February

Two separate projects, the Codling Wind Park, and the Oriel wind farm project have announced second-phase public consultation dates

Oriel Windfarm holding another series of public consultation events in January and February

The development and construction of a new 25 turbine wind farm off the Louth coast will create up to 1,000 jobs in the construction phase alone, it emerged this week. The Oriel windfarm is expected to be operational by 2025, and will see a further 50 to 100 jobs being created. And the project will 'place County Louth at the heart of a new clean energy economy', according to the company behind plans. Oriel ParkWind and the ESB put their proposals to an open public forum for the first time last week, where they laid out details of the plan to have twenty five turbines located off the Louth co...

Plans for an ambitious renewable energy project off the County Louth coastline are set to be submitted for approval to An Bord Pleanala later this year. The Oriel Windfarm project being jointly developed by Parkwind and ESB stretches back two decades, but by 2021, the project has become centred on proposals for 25 wind turbines just off Dundalk bay, a reduction on the original plans for more than fifty. With a planning application set to be lodged in the coming months, Parkwind and ESB have presented details of the full project online, with Covid restrictions preventing face to face public co...