{"id":77503,"date":"2025-10-13T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/77503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:36:08","slug":"solar-surge-powering-wicklows-renewable-energy-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/77503\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar surge powering Wicklow\u2019s renewable energy ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Plans for 29 new solar farms and building installations have already been lodged this year across the Garden County\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f7e41cfc-d3dc-4420-9670-f252fee2a967.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)\">Stock image.<\/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)\">Data released by Wicklow County Council has revealed that, as of September 3, the local authority had received 29 planning applications for developments with a solar component this year, suggesting a return to peak volumes over a five-year period after a dip in applications in 2024.<\/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)\">Providing a breakdown of submitted applications, including those approved, refused, pending or incomplete, a Wicklow County Council (WCC) spokesperson detailed how 145 applications with a solar component have been lodged in the Garden County since 2021, 19 of which were incomplete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans for 29 new solar farms and building installations have already been lodged this year across the Garden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,5718,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-77503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-eoin-mac-raghnaill","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77503","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=77503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}