Ireland Turning Bogs into Windfarms

GALWAY, IRELAND--October 28, 2013 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) Irish state-owned heating and energy group, Bord na Móna (Newbridge, Kildare), is looking to turn its peat bogs into a 2,000-megawatt (MW) wind energy goldmine.

The company has announced the Clean Energy Hub which will involve erecting hundreds of wind turbines across a number of planned windfarms over 20,000 hectares of cutaway peatland bogs stretching between East Offaly and West Kildare.