Would you support a windfarm in your area?

Well the one they put not too far from where I am around 20 years ago didn't work out too good for the area so not too sure we would want to see another one.

The OP's poll is giving the same result as the 'windfarm business' poll. 80% + in favour .

If they go with 9GW of onshore wind they'll have enough to run everything and saturate every interconnector when its windy but still have to burn loads of gas in the summer.

Solar is picking up. There might be 200-300MW installed now though its hard to tell as no figures from last year when it really started to get popular. It's unlikely they'll have 5GW in by 2025

Solar farm going in near me. I couldn't understand the nimby attitude by some locals.

I thought they'd combine it with wind turbines too.

The mis-information spouted is utterly amazing. It always suggests "cancer" and on the solar farm they suggested it could contribute to flooding.

Yep, some people are gullible enough to believe it

Run a flock of sheep under the panels and have organic lamb also.

Yes I would. Clean energy is a good thing, and I think they look cool.

R U seriously comparing Dutch traditional windmills to modern giant wind turbines in terms of landscape/ecological impacts??

He didn’t say that they were only ok if by a motorway. He said you could see them from the motorways. Not quite the same thing, eh?

Its an interesting question, I wonder what the poll results will be in 10 years time when the reality of >2000 extra turbines are surrounding the coastline and countryside.

Also I wonder about the corrolation between those voting yes and never actually having to have one in their vicinity.

I said no, but then we are already surrounded by quite a large number of them already here in North Kildare and into Offaly and they want to install many more on the surrounding bog of Allen that is no longer cut by BNM to feed Edenderry.

It says it all really that they threw them up around us and we were basically told to lump it. Rural roads torn asunder with heavy construction vehicles going back and forward.

Now that they want to put them tens of kilometres off the coastline of the likes of Dublin Bay South, they suddenly deem fit to announce this wonderful scheme known as a "Community Benefit Fund" whereby the generators must make a monetary contribution per MWh sold to the market to the nearest community.

Funny timing that.

I've no idea why anyone would be bothered by them. They're going to be putting a load of them off the coast of Dalkey and Killiney in the coming years, the Dublin Array, so this will shut the "they wouldn't put them in South County Dublin!!" people up too. We need to get our elec from somewhere, nuclear will never happen in Ireland, so in order to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels, wind and solar seems a no brainer.

They should cover the Dublin/Wicklow mountains in them, much of them are just barren ecological wastelands of no use to anyone or anything.

No, they are devastating to the local environment. our new green future with nothing but concrete doesn’t appeal.

Well, I really don't know enough about any of them to give an informed answer. I don't think solar is really a viable solution in our climate, perhaps solar and wind combined? I certainly don't want us to increase coal/turf. More Hydro perhaps if we could find a suitable location.

Nuclear I think, has more cons than pros. I don't believe we'll ever have it here, not in it's current form anyway.

The main problem for wind in this county is NIMBY.

Plans to build loads of them there

Noise, flicker, bird and bat strikes, property devaluation, but aside from those, all good.

well there's planning applications to build loads of them offshore being processed at the moment, so hopefully the ones at sea wont bother you and will spoil the views in Dublin Bay to keep you ruralites happy.