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A consignment of massive wind turbine blades arrived in the city’s port this week and will be transported in the dark of night across Quincentenary Bridge and onwards to their eventual site in Connerama.

Fans and opponents of wind technology will soon be able to get a first-hand look at a wind turbine after a single, 88m (290 ft) turbine has received planning permission on a site between Mullingar and Delvin.

The issue of wind-powered, electricity generation is back to the fore in the Midlands with the announcement this week that an Irish company has signed an €18m contract with a Chinese firm to develop three wind farms in Westmeath, Offaly, and Roscommon.

Amid rising energy costs, land and wind is a resource that most farmers still have in plentiful supply and no more so than in the western counties of Ireland. The opportunity is there now for farmers and rural home owners to grasp control of their electricity costs.

A man has died suddenly while working on a wind turbine in south Galway.

A County Dublin food company has become the first in Ireland to set out to power 100 percent of its production using green energy. Country Crest, based in Lusk and owned by brothers, Michael and Gabriel Hoey, has invested €1.5 million in a state-of-the-art wind turbine which commenced powering the plant during a recent visit by Deputy John Gormley, Minister for the Environment.