Following Ireland’s Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Communications’ announcement of winners in the country’s first offshore wind auction, SSE Renewables, whose project did not secure a contract for renewable energy generation, said that it was still committed to the future delivery of its proposed Arklow Bank Wind Park II offshore wind farm.
As reported on 11 May, Ireland selected four projects with a total capacity of nearly 3.1 GW through its first competitive auction for offshore wind, the Offshore Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (ORESS 1): the 1,300 MW Codling Wind Park , the 824 MW Dublin Array , the 500 MW North Irish Sea Array (NISA) , and the 450 MW Sceirde Rocks .