GrantedEnergyDecided 13 November 2024

Tullamore Distillery Campus Ballard & Clonminch, Tullamore, Co. Offaly

Construction of a 2.6 MWdc solar farm to power the Tullamore Distillery.

2460250 · Offaly County Council · Lodged 3 July 2024

Reference: 2460250
Authority: Offaly County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 3 July 2024

Summary

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This application proposes a solar PV development with an installed capacity of up to 2.6 MWdc on a 3.90-hectare site at the Tullamore Distillery Campus. The project will feature approximately 4,100 ground-mounted panels, a transformer station, security cameras, and fencing to provide power directly to the distillery.

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Development description

The construction of a solar pv development with an installed capacity of up to 2.6 mwdc (mec=0) to provide electrical power to the existing distillery comprising approximately 4,100 no. Photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 3.90 hectares and associated ancillary development including 1 no. Transformer station, 5 no. Cctv security cameras mounted on 8 metre high poles, perimeter security fencing (2.4 metres high), internal access tracks, extension to existing maintenance access track on the site to the solar pv development, installation of underground cable to connect the transformer station and the distillery and site works required to facilitate the development including the provision of a secondary vehicle access and gate on the northern boundary of the site. The proposed development is for modifications to an establishment to which the major accidents directive applies and is for the purposes of an activity requiring an integrated pollution prevention and control licence

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Enterprise and EmploymentCOE

“This zoning promotes the development of employment uses that reinforce the enterprise and employment function of the subject area as a whole and require high environmental and design standards.”

National zoning type: Office, business/technology park and related

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Key dates

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Application received3 July 2024
Further information requested28 August 2024
Further information received12 September 2024
Decision due14 November 2024
Decision issued13 November 2024
Grant issued18 December 2024
Permission expiry17 December 2029

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