Bord Gáis confirm €300m gas-fired power station

BORD Gáis has confirmed it hopes to have its first gas-fired power station operational by 2009, at a cost of nearly €300 million.

The confirmation came yesterday after Cork County Council granted the company planning permission for a massive 440 mega watt power station at Whitegate, Co Cork and Bord Gáis hopes that when completed it will enable it to sell electricity to the domestic market.

Dave Kirwan, the company’s head of strategic investments, said that they had chosen a 25-acre site at Whitegate because it was adjacent to the ConocoPhillips refinery and thus offered a back-up fuel source. Importantly, the site also has access to the national grid.