A year ago, The Currency broke the news that one of Ireland’s six planned offshore wind farms had pulled the plug. Planning permission had only been submitted in January 2025 for the 30-turbine Sceirde Rocks wind farm off the coast of Carna in Co Galway. But by April, the estimated €1.4 billion development had foundered; new data had led to a reassessment of the feasibility of the project, just as the companies behind it were reassessing the market. The company developing Sceirde Rocks, Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta (FST), is a 50-50 joint venture between developer Corio Generation (itself a subsidiary of…

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