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Second offshore wind auction in Ireland announced for 2025

Sunday, November 10 2024

Wind Energy – Ireland

Ireland is ramping up its offshore wind energy efforts, with a second offshore wind auction scheduled for 2025, according to Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan.

This is additional to the announcement last week that an auction for the Tonn Nua site, off the coast of Waterford, will take place early in 2025.

Several hundred delegates from the global industry heard the Minister say he believed an auction should take place for the second site identified off the southern coast, known as Lí Ban, before the end of next year.

Noel Cunniffe, CEO of Wind Energy Ireland, said: “This is a tremendous boost for Irish offshore wind energy. It sends a message that will be heard right around Europe, that Ireland is committed to offshore wind and determined to accelerate.”

The Lí Ban site is significantly larger than Tonn Nua and it is estimated a wind farm built at that location could be in the range of 1,100 MW to 1,500 MW in size compared to the 900 MW proposed for Tonn Nua.

The sites were identified in the Designated Maritime Area Plan approved by the Oireachtas for the south coast of Ireland earlier in October.

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