Applications received by the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications under Section 4 of the Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Act 2022
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From: Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications
- Published on: 17 February 2023
- Last updated on: 6 May 2025
The Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Act 2022 (the Act of 2022) provides for emergency measures for electricity generation development to ameliorate and protect security of supply of electricity in the State because exceptional circumstances have arisen in the market for that supply and further because of the situation in Ukraine and, specifically, allows for the disapplication of the Planning and Development Act 2000 for the purpose of the installation of up to 450 megawatts of temporary emergency electricity generation plant, site development and works ancillary to that installation, and the operation of the plant, intended to be located at two separate sites at Shannonbridge and Tarbert generating stations or at alternative appropriate sites, which development is required urgently for the purpose of ensuring and protecting security of electricity supply by Winter of 2023 to 2024 (the "designated development").
Section 4 of the Act of 2022 provides that a person may apply to the Minister for approval under Section 7 of the Act to carry out a designated development. The Minister has received two separate applications in respect of the Shannonbridge and Tarbert generating station sites respectively.
Details of the applications and the required statutory notices are set out at the following links:
Tarbert Application:
Shannonbridge Application: