Eco-energy parks are beneficial... to big business

Amazon Web Services director of energy EMEA Lindsay McQuade and Bord na Móna chief executive Tom Donnellan as Bord na Móna and Amazon Web Services announce a strategic collaboration that will see AWS become the first business to join Bord na Móna’s first Eco Energy Park in the Midlands. Picture: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland
Last week, Bord na Móna (BnM) launched its new vision for what it calls ‘eco-energy parks’.
The slick promotional video which accompanied the launch zooms in on Ireland from outer space, promising to harness the power of the sun to deliver a clean energy transition on 3,000 hectares of BnM land across counties Meath, Westmeath, and Offaly.