{"id":209785,"date":"2025-12-25T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209785\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:33:09","slug":"part-of-site-in-cork-set-to-host-irelands-largest-solar-farm-subject-of-waste-management-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209785\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of site in Cork set to host Ireland\u2019s largest solar farm subject of waste-management probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pictured on Greenhills farm in east Cork is TJ Hunter, Vice President Onshore Ireland &amp; UK (Right) with Simon Browne (left) and Tom Browne (Centre), the family behind Greenhills. Renewable energy company \u00d8rsted and Greenhills farm entered into a landmark agreement in March.&#13;Picture: Michael O'Sullivan&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dabac589-7b89-4b0c-9c6b-57f45092616f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pictured on Greenhills farm in east Cork is TJ Hunter, Vice President Onshore Ireland &amp; UK (Right) with Simon Browne (left) and Tom Browne (Centre), the family behind Greenhills. Renewable energy company \u00d8rsted and Greenhills farm entered into a landmark agreement in March.&#13;Picture: Michael O&#8217;Sullivan&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Planning permission has been submitted for Ireland\u2019s largest solar farm development in East Cork, despite a section of the land being the subject of an ongoing waste-management investigation by Cork County Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Greenhills in East Cork is a 1,110-acre site, currently home to the country\u2019s largest dairy herd, and in March entered into a landmark lease agreement with Danish renewable energy supplier \u00d8rsted, who took in over \u20ac9.5 billion in revenue last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pictured on Greenhills farm in east Cork is TJ Hunter, Vice President Onshore Ireland &amp; UK (Right) with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[246,37548,61,60,1718,43],"class_list":["post-209785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-environment","tag-farming-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kevin-galvin","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209785","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=209785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}