La sequenza temporale “deludente” per Waterford Wind Farm dice Energia – News – Waterford News & Star

Anything to be said for another objection

It is genuinely disgraceful just how slow our system is. Lots of planning, frameworks and consultations getting in the way of companies who are ready to start building.

This is a normal timeline.

Taking the figures from [Iberdrola](https://www.iberdrola.com/about-us/our-activity/offshore-wind-energy/offshore-wind-park-construction) who are a huge player in the wind industry :

>While the construction of an onshore wind farm can take between 4 and 8 years, taking into account all phases of the process, the construction of an offshore wind farm is estimated to take between 7 and 11 years. Three to five years are dedicated to the development phase, one to three to the pre-construction phase and two to four years to construction.

At the moment Eirgrid are [designing the cable layout](https://www.eirgrid.ie/offshore) which will lead out to the Tonn Nua site, which requires selecting landing sites and cable routes across the seabed. The “… up to five years” is a maximum for this process.

There is a massive amount of work for whoever winds the Tonn Nua auction to do before they start construction, and the Eirgrid cabling project can continue in parallel with most of that.

The projects also include all of the [landing points and cabling for the first four offshore windfarms from the ORESS 1 auction](https://renews.biz/96101/eirgrid-lands-750m-for-irish-offshore-grid/), with an investment of €750m for that purpose.