GREENSTAR PLANS TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY IN EAST GALWAY

Date Published: 26-May-2008

Greenstar is planning to build a gas utilisation plant at its landfill site in East Galway.The company has submitted plans to Galway County Council for the phased development, which would generate 4 point 2 mega watts of electricity.The proposed development would consist of 3 separate purpose built and environmentally controlled containers.Each of these would cover a landfill gas engine generating 1.4 mega watts of power each.The development would also comprise an ESB substation and 3 more containers enclosing a transformer, aswell as 2 bunded oil tanks.The 4 point 2 mega watts of power, which would be generated by the plant, would power 8 thousand 400 homes