Offshore wind could be worth €69bn to Ireland if harvested correctly

If we build ports and harness our wind potential, jobs will be created and the country can become a net exporter of energy by 2050

Offshore wind can support jobs and sustainable economic growth through mid-century and turn the country into a net exporter of energy as we deliver our own goal of net-zero by 2050. File picture

The Irish economy has developed quiet rapidly from a mainly agriculturally-based economy in the 1960s, through a period of sustained growth in the manufacturing of ICT equipment, to software development, pharmaceutical industries as well as major growth in the financial and data services sector. 

Ireland, with its offshore wind resources has the potential to be another major step change in the economy if, and only if, we can harvest the energy and related economic activity sitting in the seas and around our coasts.