The business case for the building of large-scale wind farms and the transmission networks that go with them is under threat from a policy move in Brussels.

Nearly €5bn worth of fresh investment in onshore wind energy projects is expected to be made over the next seven years.

Ireland has the potential to cater for more than 12% of the EU’s energy demand through renewable energy exports, a conference heard yesterday.

A CO CORK company is proving that jobs can be created in the wind energy industry here without intruding on the landscape or damaging the environment.

Ireland should aim to supply the rest of Europe, especially Britain, with wind energy, which has the potential to create 30,000 jobs here, a leading figure in the industry urged yesterday.

Huge amounts of hot air are often generated at conferences, but agathering in Killarney, Co Kerry, was run entirely on real wind yesterday.

Thirty thousand jobs could be created in the renewable energy sector if the Government implements a series of radical reforms, experts have claimed.

Up to 80,000 jobs could be created and the country’s GDP boosted by €3.9bn if the Government creates a policy framework that enables more cleantech industries to be developed, according to a report.

Ireland’s wind energy sector has the potential to employ more than 10,000 people by the end of the decade, when the country is set to become an energy exporter.

THE EU is expected to grant energy subsidy approval within the next month, potentially clearing the way for significant job creation and billions of euro worth of investment in Ireland’s renewable energy sector.

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.

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