Minister approves plan to zone just 1% of land in Kerry for wind energy

The Office of the Planning Regulator had recommended zoning 736 square kms for wind energy in the county. Just 59 square kms is now zoned

Just two of five initial recommendations in the county's draft development plan published in August have been implemented in the minister Peter Burke's final directive. File picture

Efforts by the Planning Regulator (OPR) to revise Kerry's new wind energy policy, to bring it into line with national policy, have all but been rejected by the Minister of State for Planning and Local Government.

Just 59 square kilometres in Kerry adjacent to the high voltage 200Kv &110kv network in the north and east of the county are now zoned as open to consideration for wind, following a final directive by Minister of State, Peter Burke.