Received 6 January 2025
Decided 29 January 2025
Part-Granted
Request Reference FOI-0003- 2025
Requester Type Business/Interest Group
Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment

My request refers to all documents, presentations and notes from meetings with wind turbine manufacturers that the Minister Eamon Ryan referred to in his comments made in an article published in the Irish Times, Friday 3rd January 2025 https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/01/03/will-2025-deliverbreakthrough-on-planning- so-ireland-can-fully-tap-its-wind-energy-gold-mine/ Specially the meetings Minister Ryan references in the below line. He [Minister Ryan] has talked to chief executives of turbine manufacturers. “They say to me, in the west coast conditions of Ireland, where you have 18-metre wave height, and you’ve a limited number of days where you can sail out to service and to deploy, they don’t have the turbines yet that can manage that.” Consider 2024 in its entirety