Ireland has no plausible plan to deliver offshore renewable energy

Despite a number of reports outlining Ireland’s ambitions for offshore renewable energy, research has shown that port development is a major bottleneck to progression of these plans

The SEAI report suggests that 40 turbines per annum can be deployed from Belfast, which — assuming 17MW turbines — is 680MWs per year.

Over the last six months, a trilogy of Government policy and strategy documents have been released that set out Ireland's approach to the harvesting of offshore renewable energy to align with Ireland's Climate Action Plan 2024, which explicitly states the aim to deliver at least 5GW from offshore wind by 2030.

The three documents in question include: