Wind energy plan to lower emissions

A RENEWABLE energy concept that has the capacity to significantly reduce electricity costs and carbon emissions for some of Ireland’s largest energy users will be unveiled in Ballydesmond, on the Cork-Kerry border, tomorrow.

Irish-owned and Limerick-based company Wind Energy Direct (WED) will officially launch its first “Behind the Meter” project at the site of one of north Cork’s largest employers, energy-saving window and door manufacturer Munster Joinery.

It is the first commercial project of its size in Ireland.

WED has installed two 2MW turbines at the site that will feed electricity into the large Munster Joinery facility.

It remained reserved on the size and value of the project. However, it is understood the project will reduce the company’s carbon emissions by 9,000 tonnes of carbon and provide enough electricity to power the equivalent of more than 2,000 homes. Work on the project began late last year.

A spokesperson for WED said the Munster Joinery project is the first of a planned 15 installations over the next four years.

“We are very confident about Wind Energy Direct’s future. We are providing answers to two key issues for large energy users by reducing both energy costs and carbon emissions and that is an extremely attractive proposition in the current environment,” the spokesperson said.