Focus on huge Irish Sea wind project as France set to nationalise EDF

Project developer says its nationalisation won't affect its key offshore energy infrastructure and other plans across Ireland

EDF owns half of Codling Wind Park, off the Wicklow coast, which is by far the largest of six offshore projects that the Government is initially relying on to generate huge amounts of renewable sources of energy by 2030.

The developer of a huge offshore wind farm project in the Irish Sea, which will be required if the Government is to meet its 2030 climate emissions targets, has pledged that its nationalisation by the French state won't affect its key offshore energy infrastructure and other plans across Ireland. 

Electricité de France, or EDF, owns half of the massive wind project called Codling Wind Park off the Wicklow coast, which is by far the largest of six offshore projects that the Government is initially relying on to generate huge amounts of renewable sources of energy by a deadline of just eight years from now.