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Ireland’s strategy to reach the goal by 2050 is laid out in The Future Framework for Offshore Renewable Energy.
Ireland’s Minister of the Environment, Climate, and Communications, Eamon Ryan, unveiled the Future Framework for Offshore Renewable Energy, a plan outlining how the nation will generate 37 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2050.
Ireland will follow a path outlined in the policy to achieve 20GW of offshore wind by 2040 and at least 37GW by 2050.
Importantly, it offers the proof necessary to support Ireland’s goals for offshore renewable energy.
Within the Offshore Wind Energy Programme, the system-wide plan created by the Offshore Wind Delivery Taskforce, the Future Framework for Offshore Renewable Energy is one of the major initiatives that were released today.
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This Friday, Minister Ryan will announce the release of the second major project of the Taskforce, the draft South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan (DMAP).
According to the government, Ireland’s offshore wind program is going as planned, fulfilling all three of its phases’ goals and schedules.
The nation’s long-term, plan-led approach to offshore wind is being developed through the 29 major initiatives included in the Future Framework for Offshore Renewable Energy.
According to the government, its foundation is an examination of financial prospects aimed at promoting investment and optimizing the financial and economic benefits of offshore renewable energy for the state and nearby communities.
In addition, it examines the possibility of exporting excess renewable energy through greater interconnection and looks at ways to turn extra electricity from renewable sources into alternative power goods and services that can be sold on global markets.
The government also stated that the policy’s guiding principles are: safeguarding the marine environment and biodiversity; making energy affordable for consumers; providing an equitable return to communities; aligning infrastructure and policy; fostering investment confidence; highlighting technological innovation; highlighting opportunities for state return; and giving priority to stakeholder and public engagement.
Minister Ryan declared: “We have the opportunity to completely transform our economy with renewable energy projects, which will provide substantial economic advantages both locally and nationally and grant us greater autonomy over our energy resources.”The greatest domestic electricity source that can take the place of imported, unstable fossil fuels is probably our offshore wind energy.”Additionally, it presents us with the most promising industrial prospect in decades, as we intend to use the extra energy we produce not only to power Europe but also our nation.”Since the environment is dynamic, changing quickly, and ever-changing, we are laying out our Future Framework now to ensure that we, as well as our business partners and local communities, are prepared for the advent of all possible offshore renewable energy sources in the future, such as fixed and floating wind, wave, and tidal energy.”Going to our Atlantic Ocean is not something that can happen overnight.
“However, this strategy provides our planned, evidence-based approach to realizing our energy potential, and we will ensure that Ireland’s West Coast is at the forefront of this development.” The technology required to fully realize the Atlantic’s immense potential is still being developed on a global scale.
The publication of the Future Framework for Offshore Renewable Energy follows five weeks of public consultation that took place earlier this year.
