Planning application submitted for Ireland’s tallest wind turbines in Donegal

Aught Windfarm Limited has lodged a planning application with Donegal County Council for a new wind farm that could host Ireland’s tallest wind turbines.

The proposal covers sites at Aught, Ture and Three Trees in Quigley’s Point and seeks permission for a ten‑year period, with a 40‑year operational life from commissioning.

The scheme would involve six turbines, each rated between 4.26 MW and 4.80 MW. Tip heights are proposed in the range of 150 m to 202 m, rotor diameters of 133 m to 138 m and hub heights from 81 m to 135 m, subject to a design‑flexibility opinion issued by the council in July.

Infrastructure works include six turbine foundations, crane hard‑stand areas, temporary assembly zones, permanent upgrades to existing turbine parcel entrances, about 2 km of new access tracks and upgrades to roughly 3.4 km of existing tracks, plus a new 125 m permanent meteorological mast.

If the maximum tip height of 202 m is achieved, the turbines would surpass the Cushaling Wind Farm in Offaly (185 m) and approach the height of Dublin’s Poolbeg Power Station chimneys (207 m), making them comparable to a 60‑70‑storey building.

Jennings O’Donovan, a multidisciplinary consulting engineering firm specialising in renewable energy, noted that the development would contribute to Ireland’s renewable energy generation, an urgent national priority in the climate emergency.

Source: Donegal Daily. Photo: David Yu / Pexels.