SSE to apply for marine area consent for 800 MW Offshore wind farm in Ireland

SSE Renewables has announced that it is going to apply for a Maritime Area Consent (MAC) for its 800 MW Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 project under the new consenting regime in Ireland. The wind project is located in a lease area situated 6 to 13 km off the Co. Wicklow coastline, to the east of Arklow.

The company’s offshore wind energy project will now progress through the MAC regime alongside other qualified Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) projects in the Irish Sea and off the west coast of the island. Transferring Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 to the MAP process allows SSE Renewables to revise the project and substantially increase the power generation output from the site to 800 MW. 

The revised project will now be capable of powering almost 850,000 homes each year, almost double the number of homes targeted by the initial iteration of the project, and offsetting around 830 billion kilos of harmful carbon emissions annually.