Moneypoint’s transfer capabilities still central as investment to grid to hit billions
*Moneypoint. AN APPROXIMATE €3.5bn needs to be spent developing the grid up to 2030 with Moneypoint still viewed as offering excellent transfer capabilities.
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ESB plans for Moneypoint site works
*Photograph: Páraic McMahon THE ESB is hoping to secure permission for site investigation works at Moneypoint as part of the early stages of its multi-billion euro Green Atlantic plan.
ESB hope to announce Equinor replacement within a month & start Green Atlantic construction by end of decade
*Planning is envisaged to be obtained by 2026 with construction hoped to commence thereafter. A REPLACEMENT PARTNER FOR EQUINOR to develop a major wind farm off the coast of West Clare is to be announced next month.
Green Atlantic at Moneypoint can generate €3bn and create thousands of jobs for West Clare
Artist’s impression of the new Moneypoint Renewable Energy Hub in Co. Clare. MONEYPOINT HAS THE POTENTIAL to generate €3bn for the Irish economy should its offshore energy plans hit full steam.
Moneypoint to convert from coal to oil & decommissioning delayed
*Photograph: Páraic McMahon MONEYPOINT will convert from coal to oil as part of a key aspect of the Government’s Climate Action Plan for 2023.
Potential hydrogen plant at Shannon Airport to be explored
*Photograph: Joe Buckley SCOPING A POTENTIAL green hydrogen plant in Shannon is to be explored as part of a new project which is among the first of its kind in the country.
ESB to announce replacement for Equinor at Moneypoint in ‘near future’ says Minister Ryan
PHASE ONE of ESB’s plans to turn Moneypoint into a renewable energy hub has received the thumbs up from the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan (GP) who also announced that a replacement for Equnior is to be unveiled in the near future.
Electricity generation from coal at Moneypoint up this year
AN INCREASE OF EIGHT PERCENT in the amount of electricity generated by coal so far this year at Moneypoint has been recorded.
‘We’re not treating environmental crisis as the emergency it is’ – Colleran Molloy
*Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne and Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy. Photograph: Eamon Ward. MAYOR of the Ennis Municipal District, Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy (FF) believes those in the political sphere are “not treating the environmental crisis as the emergency which it really is”.
Shell withdrawal from Irish windshore projects leaves Kilkee floating wind farm in choppy water
*Gordon Shearer of Shell, and Val Cummins and Hugh Kelly of Simply Blue Group pictured at Loop Head lighthouse last November. Photograph: Diane Cusack PLANS FOR A 1.35GW floating wind farm off the coast of Clare have been plunged into jeopardy with the decision of one of the partners to leave the Irish market.
