Airtricity

Airtricity is a wind farm operator company in Ireland. The name of the company is a portmanteau word from Air ( engl. air) and electricity (English stream ), but is also derived from the word Éire ( Irish for Ireland) (the company had originally under the name Eirtricity on ). The company is based in Dublin.

The company was founded in 1997 and 2008 had a power capacity of 228 MW, distributed over several Irish counties ( Cavan, Donegal and Sligo). It operates wind farms both south and north of the inner Irish border. Also wind farms in Scotland, England and Wales and in the United States are operated. Currently, a total of several thousand megawatts of wind farms in comprehensive planning.

Airtricity was formerly part of 51% of NTR plc and since the 15th February 2008, the Scottish and Southern Energy.

Airtricity has announced plans made ​​to install a supergrid -called high-voltage direct -current transmission network linking wind farms from Spain to the Baltic Sea and some offshore wind farms.

New Developments

Since January 2008, Airtricity is part of the Scottish and Southern Energy, which with approximately 20,000 employees (m / f) as the largest producer of renewable energy in the UK in 2007 for operation more than 1,300 MW of generating capacity from wind and water power.

The German offices in Hamburg and Husum were opened in May 2008. Airtricity Germany realized the 300 MW offshore wind farm Butendiek citizens, 30 km west off the island of Sylt.

Beginning of 2010 Airtricity announced on his website with: " On January 5th 2010 Airtricity 's renewable energy generation and development division which renamed SSE Renewables. Airtricity 's energy supply division Continues to be Ireland 's No. 1 supplier of cheaper greener electricity. "