Ireland’s Department of Environment, Climate and Communications has released its “Offshore Wind Technical Resource Assessment”, which estimate that an additional 3.5 GW to 18 GW of fixed-bottom offshore wind could be developed around Ireland’s coasts in the coming years. This capacity would be developed in addition to the 8 GW of offshore wind already planned in the country between the Phase One projects and the South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan (DMAP).
The assessment also explores the development of at-scale floating wind and a floating offshore wind demonstrator site, but concludes that fixed-bottom technology remains more cost-effective in the near term.
In May 2024, Ireland’s Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Communications launched its “Future Framework for Offshore Renewable Energy”, a long-term model to deliver 20 GW of offshore wind by 2040 and at least 37 GW by 2050. The country only had about 25 MW of installed offshore wind capacity at the end of 2023, but nearly 4.8 GW of onshore wind.
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