How wind farms can help us weather global energy price hikes

Added on 10 January 2022

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How wind farms can help us weather global energy price hikes

"The more we produce our own renewable energy, the more protected Irish consumers are from very high prices for imported fossil fuels," says Wind Energy Ireland CEO Noel Cunniffe.

Every time a storm looks like it is about to hit Ireland, Donal Lordan should have more reasons to worry than most of us.

This is because as manager of one of the biggest wind farms in Ireland, he should have at least 38 reasons to not be too cheerful about extreme weather events. That's the number of turbines he manages.

Most of these are up to 126 meters high - or nearly the size of two Cork County Halls on top of each other. Opened during the pandemic last year, the huge turbines that make up the ESB's Grousemount Wind Farm on the Cork/Kerry border have - so far - managed to survive the last few storms relatively unscathed.

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