Solar plan to power 150,000 homes
The joint venture will see solar panels being introduced in four remote areas of bogland in parts of Roscommon, Kildare, and Offaly in a €500m investment. They will cover about 2,500 acres, amounting to around 1% of Bord na Móna’s total landbank.
Planning permission has yet to be secured for the project, which will require around two years of front-end engineering and planning work to be carried out before an expected rollout date in 2019.
