News from the Irish Wind Farmers’ Association – Mid June 2024

Register now for the Irish Wind Farmers Association Annual Conference 2024 on Thursday 28th November at Lyrath Estate Kilkenny.

Stories from IrelandWind farms have generated more than a third of Ireland’s electricity so far this year Plans for Laois wind farm approved 10 years ago are again being assessed RES exploring potential for new wind farm in Northern Ireland SSE wraps up Yellow River turbine installation Two-month shutdown of Ireland’s largest onshore wind farm due to cable fault

Market and RegulationSEM: Terms of Reference for Year 5 Market Audit Decision Paper SEM: TSOs’ proposed definitions of Curtailment, Constraint and Energy Balancing SEM: CMC Modifications Workshop 37 Timetable SEM: SEMOpx Revised Regulatory Revenue Recovery Framework Decision Paper SEM: Directed Contract Round 27: Q4 2024 to Q3 2025 Information Paper SEM: MMU Weekly Report – 27 May 2024 SEM: SEMC minutes 25 January 2024  EirGrid: EirGrid identifies potential site for new substation to power electricity needs of central Dublin CRU: Public Sector Obligation Levy 2024-2025 Decision Paper Consultation CRU: New Consultation Platform Gov.ie: Minister Ryan gets government approval for measures to speed up climate transition Gov.ie: General Scheme – Environmental Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 Gov.ie: Accelerating Renewable Electricity Taskforce

International Stories‘Couple EU Green Deal to an Industrial Deal’ GOW24: UK needs grid plan from next gov RUK welcomes Labour pledge to end onshore wind ban Industry welcomes pledge to lift onshore wind ban in England Amazon plans England’s tallest onshore wind turbine Muirhall scales back Scottish wind project plans OCU Group acquires RJ McLeod SENSEWind demos 6MW self-erecting tower and turbine Nordex Group bags German repowering order  Enersense considering selling onshore wind, PV assets  Resolv signs vPPA with telecom giant  DTEK unveils plans for Croatian wind farm Iberdrola obtains permit for 274MW Portuguese project Nordex exceeds 5GW in Nordics turbine installations Cubico reaches 1GW Italian milestone Arise makes 500MW Finnish wind, solar pact  European Energy secures Microsoft PPAs Qualitas snaps up German wind repowering project Vestas seals 72MW turbine order RWE inaugurates 44MW Nouvions Clean energy: Portugal will begin building its largest wind farm early next year DTEK, GE Vernova sign wind power MoU Acciona Energia signs Spanish, Portuguese PPA  Rezolv, Low Carbon select Vestas for Romanian project Romanian wind project secures €291m construction funding  Vifor Wind Farm, Romania DTEK, GE Vernova sign wind power MoU Eurowind progresses 48MW Romanian wind farm Orsted starts up 518MW Texas hybrid  Mississippi’s first utility-scale wind farm is officially online Vestas picks up 577MW Oz order Vestas signs turbine deal for its ‘largest ever onshore wind farm’ in Australia TagEnergy starts work on phase 2 of 1333MW Oz project Australia set to house Southern hemisphere’s largest 1.3 GW wind farm Suzlon bags 104MW supply deal in India Vestas wins 90MW order in South Korea