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Bord na Móna aims to be very green

Bord na Móna used to be the cause of some of the biggest carbon pollutants in Ireland by burning...

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05.45 1 May 2024


Bord na Móna aims to be very green



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05.45 1 May 2024


Bord na Móna used to be the cause of some of the biggest carbon pollutants in Ireland by burning Peat and briquettes from Boglands. It has done a full U-turn on its business and now aims to be very green. One of the ways that it is doing this is by establishing wind farms on its lands mostly in the Midlands and as part of that it has opened the first Eco-energy park, in Co Offaly.

Its first big customer is none other than the biggest cloud computing business in the world Amazon web services.We hear all about their plans with John Reilly the head of renewable energy at Bord na Mona. 


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