Wind speeds at 50 m height in Ireland.

The new wind farm will be a project worth about EUR 200 million. Located on Mount Callan, near Co Clare, the wind farm will provide electricity for Clare and half of Co Limerick.

The new company, West Clare Renewable Energy, the developer of the future wind farm, will be owned mostly by 30 farm families. They collectively run over 3000 acres of land on Mount Callan, between Ennis and Miltown Malbay, where 30 wind turbines are planned to be erected, each with 3 MW of power capacity, making the total planned installed capacity 90 MW.

Construction is expected to last about two and a half years, and will provide some 300 jobs. This project will help reverse depopulation of the area, as well as reduce the amount of energy generated by fossil fuels.

Currently, Ireland satisfies its energy by getting as much as 90% of energy from fossil fuels, spending billions of euro annually on fuel imports.