Marine Institute Consulting Public on New Galway Bay Lease

The Marine Institute will host a third public information meeting on the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site on 21 July.

The meeting is part of the public consultation to ensure full information is provided on the Marine Institute’s foreshore lease application to upgrade test and demonstration facilities at the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site.

The Marine Institute applied to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government for a foreshore lease for the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test site where prototype marine renewable energy technologies and other novel technologies can be tested at reduced scale to determine viability in an ocean environment.

The new lease would encompass a wider range of devices to be tested for defined periods on the site, including floating wind energy devices, according to media reports from April.

The Marine Institute and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland will provide information on the background to the lease application and the scope of the proposed upgrade and address questions raised by the public ahead of the new deadline for submissions, which is 2 August 2016. The meeting follows two previous information meetings.