Communities on the Shannon Estuary have been dealt a blow after plans for an underwater energy turbine there have had to be abandoned.
Limerick firm DesignPro Renewables announced an application for a foreshore licence to install the 60 kilowatt hydrokinetic turbine in the estuary near Kildysart earlier this year.
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Plans have now had to be put on the long finger due to time contraints which arose out of the €2.7 million project’s funding scheme under the EU’s Horizon 2020.
Sales and Marketing Manager with the firm Róisín McCormack says their long-term hope is to look at the Shannon Estuary again for the project but for now, they’ve no choice but to withdraw:
