Strategic infrastructure
Solar Farms projects in Ireland
Projects of this type consented directly by An Coimisiun Pleanala, the national planning body, rather than by a local council. They never appear on a council planning register, which is why they are easy to miss. Each one links to its public case file.
14 projects tracked
Most schemes of this kind never take this route. Another 3,548 applications sit on the council registers, which we track as well. A free account opens them.
Cork
- Proposed 110kV electrical substation and associated 110kV infrastructure required to connect a solar farm to the existing Knockraha 220kV substation320532
- 10 year planning permission for the proposed 110kV AIS electricity substation (with 33kV customer compound) to connect to and serve a solar farm, associated loop-in / loop out infrastructure to connect into an existing 110kV overhead transmission line and all associated site works318685
- 110kV electricity substation to connect to and serve a solar farm, associated loop-in infrastructure and all ancillary works.308979
Meath
- 110kV Substation and Loop-in connection associated with an approved Solar PV Development.319662
- New 110kV substation and associated compound and ancillary equipment to facilitate the connection of Gaskinstown solar farm to the electricity transmission network.311427
- 110kV substation and associated compound, ancillary equipment, and connection to facilitate the connection of a consented solar farm.303878
- Proposed electrical substation and associated 110kV and MV infrastructure required to connect ground mounted solar PV generation to the electrical transmission system, underground cabling and all associated ancillary site development work.303568
Wexford
- Proposed 110kV substation to facilitate connection of the permitted Solar Energy Development319499
- Proposed new 110kV substation to be located within the boundary of the consented Dennistown Solar Energy Development by way of a 110kV underground grid connection to Wexford 110kV substation313191
- A 10 years for a development comprises of a 110kV 4-bay C-type electricity substation (with 33kV customer compound) (including two control buildings, lightning protection, perimeter security fencing, security lighting, drainage infrastructure, temporary construction compound) to connect to and serve a proposed solar farm (under Wexford County Council Reg. Ref. 20191272); associated loop-in infrastructrue to tie into an existing 110kV overhead transmission line including underground 110kV cabling and 2 No. new end masts with 110kV line diversion cabling; vehicular entrance and access track from the public road; all associated site development works including formation of berms and landscaping.305803
- Proposed electrical substation and associated 110kV and MV infrastructure required to connect ground-mounted solar PV generation to the electricity transmission and all associated ancillary site development works.302731
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Capacity, decision dates and the applicant behind each project are on the full directory. Utilities and network teams can pull the whole set into QGIS or ArcGIS Pro as a GeoJSON layer.