Ireland’s oldest wind farm closes down to make way for one of Europe’s largest projects

Ireland’s oldest wind farm, the 6.45-megawatt (MW) Bellacorick facility, has been decommissioned to make way for the expansion of the adjacent Oweninny Wind Farm, already the largest onshore wind farm in Ireland.

Bellacorick was first commissioned in 1992, when it consisted of 21 wind…