{"id":157665,"date":"2025-11-24T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157665\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:07:07","slug":"government-urged-to-develop-guidelines-around-renewable-energy-developments-in-north-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157665\/","title":{"rendered":"Government urged to develop guidelines around renewable energy developments in North Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council says North Kerry has become oversaturated with renewable energy developments.<\/p>\n<p>Fine Gael councillor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/cllr-michael-foley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Foley<\/a> states he&#8217;s not against renewable energy, but the volume of wind and solar farm projects in the area is excessive. <\/p>\n<p>The Ballylongford native says locals have several concerns in relation to these developments, which need to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Foley is urging the Government to publish guidelines on locations for renewable energy as soon as possible. <\/p>\n<p>Since 2022, three applications for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/solar-farm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">solar farms<\/a> in North Kerry have gotten planning permission.<\/p>\n<p>One application which received permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrycoco.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry County Council<\/a> is being appealed; and there are three live applications for the development. <\/p>\n<p>The combined size of all these applications total over 1,000 hectares. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Paul Deane is a senior lecturer in clean energy futures at UCC. <\/p>\n<p>He supports renewables, but believes to have so many projects concentrated in one area &#8211; will damage goodwill towards green energy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council says North Kerry has become oversaturated with renewable energy developments. Fine Gael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-157665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}