E.On’s Thornhill plant CCGT will operate as an OCGT and for fewer than 1,500 hours annually after August 2021. This is because it will no longer meet ‘best available technology’ requirements under the Industrial Emissions Directive.

Revised proposals for Red Rock Power’s InchCape offshore wind farm have been approved by Scottish government.

A joint venture between Irish renewables firm BNRG and France’s Neoen for a 12MW solar farm in Co Kildare has been refused permission by An Bord Pleanála because of landscape issues.