Can you guess how many bridges there are between Limerick Port and Garreenleen, a townland outside Tullow in Co Carlow? This unlikely question is one that the project managers at Ireland’s newest solar farm became all too intimately familiar with, because it caused them six months of headaches. The 81 MW solar farm is in Garreenleen and it began exporting to the grid under a state contract on August 18. In addition to being Ireland’s newest solar farm, Garreenleen is also the first project launched by the newly rebranded Perigus Energy. In February this year, Danish multinational Orsted, a global…

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