Taoiseach says 'world's first' energy facility in Co Offaly has come at a 'critical time'

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Micheál Martin turned the sod on the project this afternoon and said the war in Ukraine demonsrates the need to move away from fossil fuels.

Taoiseach turns the first sod alongside Nigel Reams, CEO of Lumcloon Energy, on new energy project in Shannonbridge, Co Offaly. Taoiseach turns the first sod alongside Nigel Reams, CEO of Lumcloon Energy, on new energy project in Shannonbridge, Co Offaly. TAOISEACH MICHEÁL MARTIN has said a new Co Offaly facility which will assist the stability and reliability of the electricity grid has come at a “critical time”.

When completed, the ‘Shannonbridge B’ grid stability plant will provide an additional 170MWh of hybrid capacity to the national electricity grid.The new hybrid facility, developed by Irish company Lumcloon Energy and Korea’s Hanwha Energy, is described as a “world’s first” that will more efficiently meet the changing needs of the power system as the level of renewable energies increases.

Turning the first sod on the project, An Taoiseach Micheál Martin labelled it a “high innovative project” that “exemplifies the type of infrastructure we need” given the “impacts of climate change” and “Russia’s immoral war on Ukraine”. Meanwhile, Nigel Reams, Managing Director of Lumcloon Energy, said the Shannonbridge B project will accelerate the decarbonisation of the Irish energy sector and will facilitate the increasing amount of renewables on the system.A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article.

 

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Someone should use the shovel on the cork langer

Gobeshite

The EU_Commission paid off Russia and Ukraine to have a bogus ‘war’ and use it to move away from fossils. Ffs mehole MichealMartinTD

Be more in your line to fcuk off back to work and do what your supposed to.

This why he has to employ advisors, and why a media is so biased and gullible.

BridMcGrath The war in Ukraine demonstrates it more than scientists showing that it's destroying the entire world... which includes Ukriane?

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