Any chance an Irish company could start building these wind turbines and keep a few jobs in the country

vestas one of the worlds largest wind turbine manufactures would set up a factory in Ireland tomorrow morning and harness our wind….but they wont because our electrical infrastructure is so poor. we have the one of the best wind regimes in the world,the grid isn’t good enough and we dont have enough of interconnectors to become a net exporter(yet). a company called c and f tooling, are making some micro turbines in galway…

Every town and village should have them. Its not like irish towns are sprawling metropolises. The towns would be a perfect size for the power output. As long as it benefits the local with somewhat cheaper electric and they should try upgrade that location to a green zone once completed or something like that. Also they should put an external lift on 1 turbine and charge to go up it like in Vancouver . Yadda Yadda Yadda

Actually drove right passed this windfarm on my way from Mullinavat to New Ross on the back road to New Ross, didn’t realize it hadn’t yet been officially opened yet.

The wind farm is signposted so was tempted to take the turn off to the farm as it was only maybe 800metres from the road behind a small wood.

It went that way…

I think we should be looking into something like this: http://t.co/cT8WYdqT

A helium-filled floating wind turbine which deploys itself to 1,000 feet, where it can benefit from stronger, more consistent winds and gives nearly twice the power yields of its land bound brethren.

With all the hot air coming from their hurling fans at the moment that farm will be a gold mine!

BGE are investing in a further 250mw of wind energy over the next 3 years…. so if you take into consideration that wind turbines produce an average of 22% of their capacity over the year they will in actual fact be producing 77mw of energy!! that is unless they want to actually produce 250mw in which case they will have to build 4 times as many wind turbines as they say!!

We really need to keep up & open more of these. We could have had a better grid & more turbines built offshore when the boom was on.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/23/us-uk-floating-wind-turbines?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Offshore wind farms are the way to go, a grid of them on our coastline. Anywhere the sea is deeper than 20 meters install wave generators instead
An Irish company is already developing wave energy technology
http://www.oceanenergy.ie/about-us/

Gerard, I live near one as well and my quality of life has suffered significantly. We suffer especially from the noise they produce.
The money put into the local community is only of a temporary nature, because after the construction phase it’s a foreign company that maintains the turbines.

I believe that the whole large wind industry is a money making scheme. We would be really going towards a greener future if we, small communities and individual homes would be supported by these European funds to erect our own wind (smaller) turbines. These could be constructed and maintained by Irish companies, keeping the money in our economy.

Also I believe that we wouldn’t need that many turbines if we all would start with seriously saving electricity. The amount of houses I see at night with full floodlights on and lights on in every room still amazes me big time.

Not content in having ruined his countryside with one-off housing and repetitive monotonous estates tacked on to villages, Paddy has embarked another next round of assault and rape of the scenic country side with these God-damn awful eyesores.

Where is the benifit from all these wind farms?.These things are an eye sore on the country side,the only people making money on them are the Danish co. that makes them.

I feel sorry for the poor people living near to the turbines.