Report
The Clean Revolution – Building Northern Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry
RenewableNI, the voice of Northern Ireland’s renewable electricity industry, launched a report on the economic and environmental benefits of offshore wind today (Tuesday 6 September).
The Clean Revolution – Building Northern Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry sets out how the industry and government can work together to achieve 1.5 GW of electricity by 2032.
In addition to meeting enough clean electricity annually to power 1.6 million homes, or 2.5 million electric cars, The Clean Revolution outlines:
- a total of £1.9 billion will be spent on NI suppliers.
- This results in a GVA of £2.4 billion and
- 1,500 new jobs in peak construction years with a total of 32,400 FTE years across the life of the projects.
The report estimates that renewables will save over 49 million tonnes of CO² emissions – the equivalent of taking 1.2 million cars off the road or planting 800 million trees.
