Ireland has ambitious renewable energy targets — the government has set a goal to produce 80 per cent of electricity from renewables by 2030. Both the task and the opportunity are massive. The country not only needs to meet its current electricity demand but also has to satisfy the increasing future needs emerging from the electrification of transport, manufacturing, and heat as well as the surging demands from data centres and green hydrogen. The government has set lofty targets to install 5GW of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030, rising to 37 GW by 2050, to help get there. That…

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