{"id":4005,"date":"2018-02-22T12:02:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coillte.ie\/development\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2018-04-19T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T14:25:32","slug":"galway-wind-park-wins-double-2018-green-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coillte.ie\/development\/galway-wind-park-wins-double-2018-green-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway Wind Park wins on the double at 2018 Green Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coillte.ie\/development\/media\/2018\/02\/17.-The-Green-Construction-Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1920\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p>The team first picked up the Green Construction Award, before taking home the big one \u2013 the overall award for Green Business of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Awards, which celebrated their tenth anniversary on the night, are designed to celebrate businesses and projects demonstrating best green practice in Ireland. This year\u2019s awards ceremony took place at a gala dinner at the Clayton Hotel in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Galway Wind Park, the judges said that the project is \u201cplaying a massive role in making our country greener, by increasing the presence of renewable energy on our territory, and bringing its technology to the forefront.\u201d They noted that they \u201cwere impressed by the volume of energy generated at the site and the different methodologies put in place to maximise yield and efficiency\u201d, adding that it \u201creally deserved its place on the top step on the podium\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 169MW Galway Wind Park, located in Connemara\u2019s Cloosh Valley, entered full commercial operation last October, and is now Ireland\u2019s largest onshore wind farm, generating enough renewable energy to power around 140,000 homes, while offsetting over 220,000 tonnes of harmful CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0emissions annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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). 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