Donegal County Council grants permission for wind farm grid connection works at KILLYMASNY, LETTERKENNY, Co. Donegal

In context

It is one of 10 wind energy applications Donegal County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 60 nationally. Of the 84 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 74% were granted.

What happens next

The applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 14 December 2023. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

Verbatim from the Donegal County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

(1) INSTALLATION OF A GRID TRANSFORMER IN THE PREVIOUSLY CONSENTED AND CONSTRUCTED LENALEA WIND FARM SUBSTATION TO PLANNING REFERENCES: 09/50116 AND 20/50835 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN INDEPENDANT POWER PRODUCER (IPP) BUILDING (MEASURING 149M2) ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED GRID COMPENSATION EQUIPMENT, A DIESEL GENERATOR, AND UNDER GROUND CABLE TRENCHES LINKING THE PROPOSED IPP BUILDING TO THE GRID TRANSFORMER, AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT, A BOREHOLE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS