Bord na Móna
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| legal form | Public limited company (Plc) |
| founding | 1946 |
| Seat | Newbridge , County Kildare , Ireland |
| Number of employees | 2,000 (2004) |
| Branch | Mining / Utilities |
| Website | www.bnm.ie |
Bord na Móna ( Irish , bˠoːɾˠd̪ˠ nə mˠoːn̪ˠə , German: peat authority, peat agency ) is a semi-public Irish company that masters the industrial mining and recycling of peat in the country.
history
The predecessor of Bord na Mona , the Turf Development Board Ltd , was founded in 1933. The company was particularly important during the Second World War, as the supply of coal was scarce and the national energy supply had to be ensured through peat.
The present company was founded in 1946 by the Turf Development Act .
Since the production peak of fossil energy source peat is foreseeable and Torfkraftwerke only have a limited time to maturity, is preparing Bord na Mona preparing to continue in the production of renewable energy sources to enter: One since 1993 in Oweninny in County Mayo operated wind farm will from the current 6 MW can be expanded to an electrical output of more than 350 MW.
Peat extraction and processing
- → See also: Peat # Ireland
Especially in the Irish Midlands , in Counties Offaly , Longford and Westmeath, Bord na Móna cultivates the extensive moors and extracts peat primarily as fuel for the large peat power plants of the Irish national energy supplier Electricity Supply Board (ground), but also for the domestic sector ( as a briquette ).
For this operates Bord na Móna the necessary peat , dryers , mills and briquette factories .
West Offaly power station in Shannonbridge , which is fueled by Bord na Móna
Industrial peat extraction near the West Offaly peat power plant
Industrial peat extraction in the Bog of Allen
Light rail near the West Offaly peat power station
As by-products, lighters, soil substrates for horticulture and other peat-based products are sold.
Rail operations
- → See also: Rail transport in Ireland
For the transport of the peat extracted and the products made from it (more than 5 million tons annually), Bord na Móna operates an extensive network of narrow-gauge railway lines such as B. the Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway . The network is partly permanently laid, partly as a field railway with "flying" tracks , i. H. the tracks are regularly moved there in order to follow the mining progress in the moors or to make room. With a total length of more than 2000 km, the network is larger than that of the national railway company Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) . Bord na Móna is one of the largest industrial rail operators in Europe.