Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald today called on the government to investigate the high cost of onshore wind in Ireland.
The Dublin TD, who many political analysts predict could become the Taoiseach after the next election, questioned the “sky high” €74 per megawatt-hour price from the first RESS auction in 2020.
McDonald, who was speaking at today’s Wind Energy Ireland conference, claimed this was the highest of any competitive tender in Europe over the past two years.
The full details are revealed in today’s special reNEWS show daily on Day 1 of Wind Energy Ireland event.
The issue also reports that new renewables projects in Ireland will slow to “a trickle” if more is not done to overhaul grid access.
Elsewhere, RWE and Wind Energy Ireland separately called on Dublin to speed up planning decisions on renewables projects in order to deliver the country’s 2030 green goals.
The show daily also includes a story that says the around 9GW of onshore and offshore wind needed to deliver climate targets must come online by 2028, two years earlier than the government’s timeline.