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Airtricity is a wind farm operating company in Ireland . The name of the company is a suitcase word from Air and electricity, but is also derived from the word Éire ( Irish for Ireland ) (the company originally appeared under the name Eirtricity ). The company is based in Dublin .

The company was founded in 1997 and in 2008 had an electricity capacity of 228 MW , spread over several Irish counties ( Cavan , Donegal and Sligo ). It operates wind farms both south and north of the inner-Irish border. Wind farms are also operated in Scotland, England and Wales as well as in the USA. A total of several thousand megawatts of wind farms are currently being planned.

Airtricity was previously 51% owned by NTR plc and has been owned by Scottish and Southern Energy since February 15, 2008 .

Airtricity has announced plans to install a high-voltage direct current transmission system called a supergrid , which will link wind farms from Spain to the Baltic Sea and some offshore wind farms.

New developments

Since January 2008 Airtricity has been part of Scottish and Southern Energy, which, with around 20,000 employees, was the largest producer of renewable energies in Great Britain in 2007 and operated over 1,300 MW of hydro and wind power .

The German branches in Hamburg and Husum were opened in May 2008.

Between 2007 and 2009, Airtricity Germany was involved in the project implementation of the 300 MW community offshore wind farm Butendiek .

At the beginning of 2010 Airtricity announced on its homepage: “On January 5th 2010 Airtricity's renewable energy generation and development division was renamed SSE Renewables . Airtricity's energy supply division continues to be Ireland's No. 1 supplier of cheaper greener electricity. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.Windmesse.de Airtricity Germany Developments GmbH: Supergrid . Windmesse.de. March 26, 2009. Archived from the original on November 7, 2009. Retrieved on September 10, 2010.
  2. ^ Airtricity / SSE Renewables. In: Airtricity.com. January 5, 2010; Archived from the original on September 4, 2010 ; accessed on February 17, 2018 (English).

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