Rural Life
The hen harrier has helped put paid to contentious plans for a three-turbine wind farm reaching almost 500ft in height
An Bord Pleanála has given permission for the construction of a wind farm in Glenard, Co. Donegal, after rejecting its own inspectors report.
Environment
The Irish Wind Farmers' Association is calling on community groups, farmers and small businesses to learn more about the upcoming SRESS
Bord na Móna and SSE Renewables will submit a planning application for the proposed Lemanaghan Wind Farm in Co. Offaly in the coming months.
Just under 1000 webs of the protected Marsh Fritillary butterfly have been counted at a windfarm site in Northern Ireland.
Forestry
Pre-tax profits at the semi-state forestry company, Coillte, slumped by more than €60 million to €61.5 million for 2023
Renewable energy is an expanding industry, with over 300 wind farm plants now energised across the country and plans in place for more
One farm family has said that a planned 50MW wind farm in Clare "feels like an assault on the community and the very fabric of rural life”.
A TD has called on the government to publish guidelines on wind farm development, saying that people "need legally binding rights".
Four in five people in are in favour of wind energy development, with three in five supporting wind farms for their local area...
Agri-Business
EDF Renewables Ireland has today (Friday, November 10) announced plans to develop a 30 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Co. Roscommon.
A challenge mounted by locals against a large scale €175 million wind farm has been dismissed by a High Court judge.
A TD has said that farmers in the midlands region have expressed "serious concerns" over rewetting proposals from Bord na Móna.
Valeo Foods Ireland signed a new CPPA, which allows the company to purchase renewable energy from Cronalaght wind farm in Gweedore
Wind Energy Ireland has invited members of the public to visit one of almost a dozen wind farms this month.
A residents' group is seeking to challenge in the High Court plans for a large scale €175 million wind farm in Kilkenny.
Dáil passes motion, tabled by the Rural Independent Group of TDs, that instructs the government to cap prices paid to wind farm operators.
An appeal brought to the Supreme Court by local residents to a Waterford windfarm has been rejected, meaning the windfarm...
An Bord Pleanála has granted final planning permission for a wind farm in Co. Clare, which expects to generate enough energy...
Kilkenny hurling great, Henry Shefflin objected to plans for a large-scale €175 million wind farm in County Kilkenny.
An Bord Pleanála has granted final planning permission for Castlebanny Wind Farm, a co-development project...
Significant changes are needed to current government policies to improve carbon emissions reductions from the energy sector, a new report said
The ESB has confirmed that it is to decommission the controversial Derrybrien wind farm in Co....
