West Cork green energy facility to be biggest of its kind in world

Green hydrogen and ammonia plant is a joint venture between local company and US-based firm

Ellen Ruhotas, managing director of Zenith Energy, and Pearse Flynn, founder of EI-H2, who announced plans for a joint venture to develop a 3.2 gigawatt green energy facility at Bantry Bay to produce green hydrogen and green ammonia. Picture: Michael O'Sullivan/OSM

A new so-called green energy facility planned for Bantry Bay will be among the biggest of its kind in the world if it gets the go-ahead, its developers have said.

Fresh from announcing the country's first green hydrogen facility at an estimated investment of €120m in Aghada in East Cork last month — and also among the world's largest  — Cork firm EI-H2 has now joined with the Irish arm of Texan-headquartered energy firm Zenith Energy in a bid to produce green hydrogen and green ammonia in West Cork.