Bord na Móna launches €115m windfarm on bog

A bog area used by Bord na Móna in the Midlands has been converted into a €115m wind farm with enough power to generate electricity for 45,000 houses.

The Mountlucas energy project near Daingean in the east of Offaly — the first built on a cutaway bog — has been switched on to supply up to 84MW of power to the grid.

It is one of a series of wind farms the energy company is planning to build, mostly on former bogland, over the next seven years.