Offshore Wind farms in Ireland

Ireland has 27 offshore wind farm projects of which 2 currently operating, none where construction has progressed enough to connect the turbines and generate electricity, none are in the build phase, and none are either consented or have applied for consent. You can access over 80 data sets on each wind farm subject to your access level and drill down to see items such as:

on project 'Codling Bank I (Relevant Project)' on Friday, 08 January 2021, the following was announced: 'Codling Wind Park has released its Scoping Report for offshore elements, going towards the EIA. The document was completed in November 2020. The report asks questions of 78 stakeholders, especially relating to survey delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which may need to be moved to 2021-2. It suggests, however, that planned surveys up to September 2021 should be sufficient, and requests confirmation of this.

The purpose of the Scoping Report is to engage with regulators, statutory and non-statutory consultees as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment process, inviting them to provide relevant information and to comment on the proposed approach being adopted by Codling Wind Park in relation to the offshore elements of the project. This aims to ensure that a robust Environmental Impact Assessment Report is submitted in support of the eventual application for planning consent. A similar Scoping Report for the onshore elements of the project is also being developed and will be finalised in the coming months. '