Ireland in danger of wasting offshore energy opportunity, committee told
Offshore wind can deliver “80 gigawatts” of power, almost ten times the size of Ireland’s grid of “5-and-a-half gigawatts,” CEO of Shannon Foynes Port Company Pat Keating declared. Mr Keating was addressing the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action. Committee Chair Brian Leddin, Green Party TD, noted that that the war in Ukraine has…