Written answers
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Wind Energy Generation
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total number of operational wind turbines supplying the national grid that are located here; and if he will provide a breakdown of the number of said turbines in each county. [8519/14]
Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Eirgrid (the Transmission System Operator) and ESB Networks (the Distribution System Operator) provide online data on size and location of windfarms connected to the national grid. While EirGrid and ESB do not compile information on a county basis, information on the size and location of wind farms is publicly available on their websites at and respectively. EirGrid have calculated that there are 1,386 operational wind turbines supplying the national grid.
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