2009-10-28
Ireland to Stop Burning Peat for Electric Power. By Andras Gergely, Reuters, October 23, 2009. "Ireland will stop using peat to produce electricity by about 2025 to 2030 as it moves toward renewable sources, although it faces infrastructure and financing hurdles, the state-owned peat energy company said... 'It's an important part of our history,' Bord Na Mona Finance Director Michael Barry said in an interview. 'It's not the cleanest fuel'... Bord Na Mona, which operates a 128 MW peat-fired power plant in Edenderry, west of Dublin, is increasingly focusing on renewable sources of energy such as wind and biomass as it phases out peat... 'We have one of the best wind regimes in Europe, the wind blows a lot here,' Barry said. 'One of the key obstacles is to do with the electricity grid and the resilience and ability of the grid to absorb new wind energy.' The best wind farm locations are often in remote areas where the grid is especially underdeveloped, he added."
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