http://www.windenergyplanning.com/new-wind-energy-and-major-infrastructure-petition/ Renewable energy is essential to modern society - reducing harmful emissions from fossil fuels and making us more self sufficient. This site will explore what people are doing to help get us closer to a greener, renewable energy sourced world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:15:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.windenergyplanning.com/new-wind-energy-and-major-infrastructure-petition/comment-page-1/#comment-6301 john f peacocke Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:56:07 +0000 http://www.windenergyplanning.com/?p=3885#comment-6301 I come from a rural area with high touristic interest. It is known that a large offshore wind farm is on the way. The electricity transmission network locally is underdeveloped and we will have to be connected more directly to the N.I.Grid, the UK interconnectors, to Europe. I intend to argue and lobby for underground cabling in order to mitigate the effect upon our precious landscape. I am aware that :the Wales- Ireland interconnector will be run buried well inland in order to preserve residential amenity . :German regulations require burial of cables until well inshore. :In the case of the South Downs landscape, pylons are being removed for a HV underground cable installation to preserve landscape. I envisage a future for Ireland as a net energy producer with major power flows towards Europe, via the Eastern Irish coastline and across the Irish Sea. This makes it all the more important that environmental protection is made a major material consideration in Planning Applications ,and front loading of projects in respect of such matters should be demanded from constructors. Given the fast tracking of large scale infrastructure development, I confess that I am not optimistic. I come from a rural area with high touristic interest. It is known that a large offshore wind farm is on the way. The electricity transmission network locally is underdeveloped and we will have to be connected more directly to the N.I.Grid, the UK interconnectors, to Europe.
I intend to argue and lobby for underground cabling in order to mitigate the effect upon our precious landscape.
I am aware that
:the Wales- Ireland interconnector will be run buried well inland in order to preserve residential amenity .
:German regulations require burial of cables until well inshore.
:In the case of the South Downs landscape, pylons are being removed for a HV underground cable installation to preserve landscape.
I envisage a future for Ireland as a net energy producer with major power flows towards Europe, via the Eastern Irish coastline and across the Irish Sea.
This makes it all the more important that environmental protection is made a major material consideration in Planning Applications ,and front loading of projects in respect of such matters should be demanded from constructors.
Given the fast tracking of large scale infrastructure development, I confess that I am not optimistic.

]]> http://www.windenergyplanning.com/new-wind-energy-and-major-infrastructure-petition/comment-page-1/#comment-6146 Colin Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:16:57 +0000 http://www.windenergyplanning.com/?p=3885#comment-6146 Each wind turbine can power around 500 households. The world will eventually run out of fossil fuels, and we are already dangerously close to not having enough energy to fuel our country's needs - wind is FREE, and does not cost. Each wind turbine can power around 500 households. The world will eventually run out of fossil fuels, and we are already dangerously close to not having enough energy to fuel our country’s needs – wind is FREE, and does not cost.

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