North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

Western Power

Achill Island is really becoming hi-tech. First the cable car (well, eventually) and now there's a plan to become self-sufficient in electricity in the future. There is a study into tidal power generation, with a plan to install a turbine on the north of the island (looking out towards Blacksod Bay). However, I'm less enthusiastic about a proposal to build a wind farm in the area. Achill is a little jewel on the west coast and is really too small to accommodate an unobtrusive wind farm. I don't see the need, given that there is already a plan to build a number of huge wind farms in north Mayo, less than twenty miles away.