Winds of change blow through energy industry

FOLLOWING the recent articles in the Irish Examiner (April 22 and 24) discussing the lack of development of renewable energy in Ireland, it would be remiss of me as chairperson of the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) not to comment&.

In one article, Dermot Ahern TD, Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, commented extensively on the Government's Green Paper on Sustainable Energy published in 1999.

This paper targeted as an absolute minimum the installation of 500MW of additional generating capacity from renewable energy technologies, mainly from wind, by 2005.