PUBLIC MEETING: All welcome.

Monday 7th April, 7.30pm. Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire.

Booking on Eventbrite: The Dublin Array Windfarm Planning Application.

German energy giant RWE and Irish company Saorgus propose to build a wind farm on/in the vicinity of the Kish and Bray sandbanks, sited less than 10 km from the Howth/Dalkey/Killiney/Greystones coastline. The proposed infrastructure would comprise 39 to 50 wind turbine generators on monopile or multi-leg jacket foundations with scour protection, extensive inter-array cabling with protection, an offshore sub-station platform and two sub-sea export cables to connect the wind farm to the shore at Shanganagh Cliffs. Proposed turbines would be up to 309.6m tall, with rotor diameter of 236 to 278 meters diameter.

Onshore electricity transmission infrastructure would include underground export cables that will go through the townlands of Shanganagh, Hackettsland, Ballybrack, Loughlinstown, Cherrywood, Glebe, Laughanstown, Carrickmines Great and Jamestown, Co Dublin.

The Operations and Maintenance Base infrastructure is proposed at St Michael’s Pier, Dun Laoghaire, where it is planned to demolish the existing single storey building and other aspects of the current pier structure and replace it with a three storey building to include an electrical substation, floating berth etc. For additional information, see the application documents.

This project would not only have a considerable environmental impact but will affect the visual aesthetics of our unspoiled coastline, hemming in Killiney Bay and dominating the seascape across a wide area of the Dublin Bay/North Wicklow coast. In combination with the proposed Codling Bank Wind farm, for which a planning application has already been submitted, the combined infrastructure would be clearly visible along the coast from Howth Head to Wicklow town.

While the currently proposed industrialisation of our coasts is a national issue, the impact of the Dublin Array would be especially significant to the local community, those who live in the area and use the sea on a daily basis.

Codling Windpark is a proposed offshore wind farm approximately 13-22 kilometres off the County Wicklow coast, between Greystones and Wicklow Town. Codling Wind Park is a 50:50 joint venture between EDF Renewables and Fred. Olsen Seawind.  This will be Ireland’s largest offshore windfarm with 75 turbines, proposed to stand between 288 meters and 314 meters tall, higher than any existing wind turbine in the world.  This will have significant detrimental effects to the biodiversity of the area.

The application for this development was submitted by the developer in September 2024 and is currently open to observations by the public.  We need you to lodge an observation to show that the public disagrees with this inappropriately planned marine development.