Renewable energy firm Statkraft has activated two new solar farms in Ireland, bringing the amount of solar energy it is feeding into the grid here to above half a gigawatt.
The Scandinavian company said it had “energised” a 174 megawatt (MW) solar project in Clonfad, Co Westmeath, and a 32MW operation at Irishtown on the Dublin-Meath border. A megawatt of power is considered enough to power between 700 and 750 homes.
Statkraft, which described itself as Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, said the two new projects brought its total installed solar capacity in Ireland to 560MWs, or over half a gigawatt. This, it said, represented just over two-fifths of the 1.3 gigawatts in Irish installed solar energy.
