Windfarms to provide 800mw to national grid

UP to 800 megawatts of electricity power generated by windfarms will soon be connected to the national grid.

ESB Networks said this has the potential to supply power to hundreds of thousands of Irish homes in the near future.

The company, part of the ESB, said 600mw of grid connection contracts with windfarm companies have been put in place by ESB National Grid and ESB Networks, and those wind farms are under construction nationwide.