Delays could cost Ireland billions in wind investment

IRELAND’S wind energy sector is in “a very precarious position” and could lose billions of euro of investment, due to ongoing delays in the approval of subsidies.

That was according to Kenneth Matthews, who spoke ahead of this week’s Irish Wind Energy Association annual conference in Killarney, Co Kerry.

The association chief executive said delays in the awarding of Ireland’s renewable energy feed in tariff subsidies from Europe would top the agenda.