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Fine Gael TD for Mayo, Michelle Mulherin, this week called for a mandatory contribution by wind farms to the economic, environmental, or social impact on local communities where power lines and wind turbines are being erected. This contribution or benefit in kind, would be in addition to the rent paid by wind farms to landowners and the rates paid to local authorities.

Westmeath can expect an estimated 100 turbines on private land as part of Element Power’s ongoing €8 billion Greenwire wind energy project to export 3,000 megawatts of electricity to the UK by 2018, it was revealed this week.