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Shannon Estuary set to become what Aberdeen was to North Sea oil Cantillon: Moneypoint project will allow Ireland to become net exporter of renewable energy about 4 hours ago   Far from salvaging a soon-to-be redundant coal-fired power station, the ESB’s announcement of a new role for Moneypoint opens up two crucial fronts. The west Clare facility will be the base to build and service the Atlantic’s first offshore windfarm. And it facilitates a big move into green hydrogen production, harnessing the carbon-free gas from a 1.4 gigawatt floating windfarm – set to be the biggest in Euro...

April 9, 2021, by Adnan Durakovic Irish energy company ESB and Equinor will jointly develop a 1.4 GW Moneypoint floating offshore wind farm off the West Coast of Ireland. Source: ESB The Moneypoint wind farm will be developed off the coast of Counties Clare and Kerry in two phases. Once complete, the wind farm will be capable of powering more than 1.6 million homes in Ireland, ESB said. Subject to the appropriate consents being granted, the wind farm is expected to be in production within the next decade. Green Atlantic @ Moneypoint The wind farm is part of ...

April 9, 2021 12:56 pm The Moneypoint site in Co. Clare is to be turned into a “green energy hub”, the ESB has announced today (Friday, April 9). A range of renewable energy technologies are set to be rolled-out on the Moneypoint site over the next decade, with a planned capacity to power 1.6 million homes. The plan – named ‘Green Atlantic @ Moneypoint’ – is a multi-billion euro programme and will result in “hundreds of jobs” according to the ESB. The programme will see the development of the following: Advertisement Renewable enablement – Construction will begin on a €50 ...

Moneypoint to become a green energy hub powering 1.6m homes Image: ESB The coal-burning power plant in Co Clare will be transformed into a renewable energy site over the next decade. A 1,400MW floating offshore windfarm, a turbine construction hub and a hydrogen production facility are among the plans to transform ESB’s Moneypoint site into a green energy hub. Today (9 April) ESB announced a multibillion-euro programme that aims to deploy a range of renewable technologies in Moneypoint, Co Clare, which will have the capacity to power 1.6m homes in Ireland. ‘A reimagined Moneypoint will no...

The project, which ESB is calling ‘Green Atlantic @ Moneypoint’, will be developed in partnership with Equinor. ESB said the development is expected to be in production within the next decade, subject to the appropriate consents being granted. The developers have already begun preparations to connect the wind farm to the grid, and will break ground on a new €50m sustainable system support facility in the coming weeks. ESB said the synchronous compensator that this will be housed in the facility is expected to be the largest of its kind in the world. Moneypoint will also become a centre ...