Ireland must 'catch up' on offshore wind energy, says Simon Coveney

Ireland's first operational offshore wind farm at the Arklow Bank Wind Park (Phase 1), off the coast of Arklow, Co Wicklow. Simon Coveney told a joint Oireachtas committee that the offshore wind energy sector can spark major economic growth.

Ireland has immense natural resources in the area of offshore wind but has been overtaken by countries such as Scotland and Portugal which have been quicker to adopt renewable energy technologies, Enterprise Minister Simon Coveney has said.

“Ireland needs to catch up and overtake them,” Mr Coveney told a joint Oireachtas committee on the environment and climate action as he said the sector can spark major economic growth.