Wind energy usage set to treble

THE use of wind energy, now seen as Ireland’s oil well in the sky, is expected to treble here over the next two years.

Sustainable Energy Ireland’s Renewable Energy Information Office, organisers of an information evening in Cork on Wednesday, said wind ensures security of energy supply and reduces over reliance and dependence on imports.

Ireland is now the most energy import dependent country in the industrialised world, bringing in some 90% of all its fuel.