Shannon Estuary Taskforce chairman says State making a strategic error by not backing floating wind
‘Every country in Europe right now with a coastline and deep water is going after floating offshore wind.’ Except IrelandThe State has decided not to prioritise floating offshore wind due to the risks involved, a decision criticised by the head of the Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce.
‘We got a ring, it looked like a washer’: Irish victims lose thousands in global online shopping scam centred in China Meanwhile, Ryan said: “The estuary has the capacity to rebalance the national economy and be an answer to climate change.” In April, they participated in a consultation on the second Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan. “The process for the west coast was a mess. The map was in the wrong place, and it was too small, and the water was too shallow. The turbines would be too visible from the shore. They agreed they hadn’t covered themselves in glory there committed to finalising a DMAP by September 2024,” O’Sullivan says.
They sourced reports indicating by 2035 floating offshore wind in the North Sea will be the equivalent price of fixed offshore wind based on 10 metres per second wind speed. “We have 14m/s average wind speeds in the Atlantic, and as power is proportional to the cube of wind speed, 14 is 2.7 times better than 10.”
They were asked by department officials to approach the council to see if they were prepared to second people to the department. He agreed to do this if they would be ring-fenced to work on the west Designated Maritime Area Plan. The answer was “no”. “There’s is no clear line of sight as to how they’re going to be delivered, and every country in Europe right now with a coastline and deep water is going after floating offshore wind.”
“We’re very worried and fearful that Ireland is not just going to is going to miss a huge upside opportunity but it’s also going to put the existing economic base at risk.”“We are operating in a periphery region of Europe at well below the average infrastructure with electricity cost of 35 per cent above the European average, and a shortage of power. It’s not a sustainable economic model. And we are sitting on the biggest source of energy that Europe has ...
“Everything is micromanaged in the centre in a world where the pace of change is only getting faster and faster. Let’s do our policies centrally and nationally, so we’re efficient. But let’s get into local implementation because we will not be able to move fast enough otherwise.
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