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The Galway Wind Park Delivery Team, consisting of SSE, Coillte and Roadbridge, scooped two prestigious trophies at the 2018 Green Awards in Dublin on Tuesday night (20th February 2018). The team first picked up the Green Construction Award, before taking home the big one – the overall award for Green Business of the Year. The &hellip
UPDATE FROM COILLTE REGARDING ISSUES WITH FARM FORESTRY PARTNERS Vast Majority of 630 farm partnerships working well Review of contracts shows that there are no cases where farm partners have not been paid what they are due Communication with all farm partners will be improved and a new level of transparency on calculations and payments &hellip
SSE and Coillte’s 169MW Galway Wind Park can power every home in Galway and will offset over 220,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. The 169MW Galway Wind Park, co-developed by SSE and Coillte in Connemara’s Cloosh Valley, has entered commercial operation and is now Ireland’s largest and best performing wind farm, generating more green energy than &hellip
Ambitious renewable energy target to develop 1 GigaWatt (GW) of future wind projects IBI and Capricorn provisionally appointed as joint advisers as Coillte considers options to enhance value Coillte today announced that in order to optimise its renewable energy strategy it will explore a range of partnership and/or joint venture models in relation to its &hellip
Coillte were delighted to facilitate two fantastic events at our forests over the Halloween weekend. Firstly a two night scare event “The Hazelwood Haunting” was held in Sligo. Over two nights thousands of visitors were scared out of their wits as Hazelwood forest came to life after dark with strange sounds and spooky ghosts around every corner. The &hellip
Minster of State Andrew Doyle TD presented Brendan Lynch of Coillte and Martin McManus with their QQI (Quality & Qualifications Ireland) certificates at Avondale House, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow. This followed their successfully completing a Level 5 award in forestry forwarder operations, making them the first students to successfully complete this newly commenced course run out &hellip