https://www.atlanticinfrastructure.ie/about-us daily 0.75 2021-01-30 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/60135112d982e93165901892/1612039852233/John2R.jpg About Us - Dr. John Tierney Dr. John Tierney, in his 39 year public service career, held some of the most senior roles in the Irish public sector. He served as Galway City Manager, Fingal County Manager, Dublin City Manager and Managing Director of Irish Water. Across various roles, John was responsible for the planning and management of large-scale public infrastructure projects. John holds a BA and an MA in Public Management (NCEA) and a Doctorate in Governance from Queens University Belfast. He has also served as Chairman of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority on the Boards of the National Sports Campus Development Authority and the National Transport Authority. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5e6f87477f317b25bef4d84d/1584367451586/bigstock-Picture-Of-Wind-Farm-Generator-307323613.jpg About Us Private investors, working alongside infrastructure operators, can play an important and positive role in the delivery of the world class infrastructure needed in a modern Ireland. AIP enables that private investment to identify investment opportunities and harness that potential for the benefit of communities across the country https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5e6f863986a3897ab48db38a/1584367407996/ About Us AIP focuses on early-stage project investments, adding value to identified opportunities by bringing projects through the consenting processes that must be navigated to clear the first critical hurdle to delivering infrastructure and get projects shovel-ready. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5e6f82fb54d7fb5414ee52bf/1587564544711/bigstock--175145503.jpg About Us - AIP helps bridge funding, capacity and delivery gaps and provides critical infrastructure ahead of when others might have been able to so. High quality infrastructure serves societies in terms of contributing to economic growth, local jobs and strong and vibrant communities. AIP bring those advantages forward ahead of time, and ahead of when they would otherwise be available to those communities. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/601352981f3d6b11e6a3d18e/1612039869618/ About Us - Fergus Murphy Fergus is AIP’s Director of Finance, having over 20 years’ experience in asset finance, lending, pensions, trusteeship and investments. He holds qualifications in asset finance from the Institute of Banking, is a Qualified Financial Advisor (QFA), a Specialist Investment Advisor (SIA), a Licentiate of the Institute of Bankers and a member of the Association of Pensioneer Trustees. He holds a master’s degree in financial planning from University College Dublin and is a certified Financial Planner® professional. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/6013508d4acf8c4a4cb9a29c/1612039835260/Tom1R.jpg About Us - Tom Doheny Tom has over 35 years’ experience in corporate finance having previously been a Corporate Finance Director with Deloitte and PWC. Tom’s experience in the renewable energy sector extends over two decades, having been centrally involved in a number of successful wind energy development transactions. Tom is Development Director with the company and responsible for strategic operations in AIP. He brings significant senior management and operational expertise to the company as well as his significant corporate finance experience. https://www.atlanticinfrastructure.ie/home daily 1.0 2020-12-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea0534f3338f119bc671818/1609187792878/Artboard+1+copy+4-100.jpg Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea0530950a5432d66485fe1/1587565326681/Artboard+1+copy+5-100.jpg Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea0531923f49c364604ccaf/1587565341100/Artboard+1+copy+2-100.jpg Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea05368aec2a673e877ec76/1609187780224/Artboard+1-100.jpg Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/5e6f448ad0babc2b375b5e4d/5e7dfaafb4d270216533b5e6/1587566168456/AIP_slideshow+template-05.jpg Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/5e6f448ad0babc2b375b5e4d/5e7deec37d4e8e3187285d7e/1585312119628/AIP_slideshow+template-01.jpg Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/5e6f448ad0babc2b375b5e4d/5e7df5e614477f68e7f70a55/1585313554421/AIP_slideshow+template-03.jpg Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/5e6f448ad0babc2b375b5e4d/5e7df98547c7f816da903beb/1585314324860/AIP_slideshow+template-04.jpg Home https://www.atlanticinfrastructure.ie/contact daily 0.75 2020-04-27 https://www.atlanticinfrastructure.ie/sectors daily 0.75 2021-01-30 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea05000809ad35e85bf99b9/1587564677360/bigstock--175145503.jpg Sectors & Projects - Solar Energy We help landowners earn an additional income from their land while generating clean ,renewable solar energy through the solar farms we develop. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5e6f5fcfd0babc2b375dc6fa/1584364236577/bigstock-A-Television-Transmitter-On-Br-305873986.jpg Sectors & Projects - Telecoms We identify opportunities for telecommunications infrastructure, including shared access telecoms towers, last-mile fibre to the premises and fibre-optic backhaul. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5e6f799beb81c70ba5e80939/1587564501299/aip-windfarm.jpg Sectors & Projects - Wind Energy We identify optimum sites for wind energy developments and partner with landowners to help them harness the untapped potential of their lands. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/6015c5b33cfa4175842c6629/1612039801151/ProjectMap2.jpg Sectors & Projects - AIP is currently working on a portfolio of wind energy, solar energy and telecoms infrastructure projects across the country. Our wind energy project pipeline currently consists of seven projects amounting to more than 270MW. Our solar energy project pipeline is currently made up of five large-scale projects that are anticipated to deliver in excess of 300MW of generating capacity. Our telecoms infrastructure projects are located primarily in urban areas and currently, three projects are at various stages of development. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5e6f5f180f431516e1c0ddac/1584364289506/bigstock-The-Silhouette-Of-The-Evening--338387629.jpg Sectors & Projects - Electricity Transmission We further the roll-out of renewables by identifying existing capacity bottlenecks and providing new electricity transmission infrastructure that assists renewable energy generators or large energy users. https://www.atlanticinfrastructure.ie/solar-energy daily 0.75 2020-04-29 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea573b82a97584d9974945a/1587901372338/ Solar Energy - Co-designing projects AIP seeks to involve multiple landowners in our projects to be able to assemble the amount of land needed for our projects. We pride ourselves on working with our partner landowners to co-design the solar farm to take their individual needs into account. While it will be in everyone’s interest to maximise the solar energy potential of a site, individual landowner’s requirements and preferences are always factored in to only include whatever lands they are happy to include and locate roadways and access points where landowners are agreeable. We keep our partner landowners involved at every stage of the design process, walking the land with them whenever necessary before picking the preferred locations and routes for the different parts of the solar farm. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea60b17eb5b8c21980c80b8/1587943252667/ Solar Energy - Battery storage Battery storage units allow excess solar energy generated by the solar farm to be stored when it might not be needed by the national grid. It can then be released later when it is needed. Battery storage units are like shipping containers, with all the battery and electrical parts safely secured inside the container. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea60d0bccd2820f987c2b9f/1587943277126/ Solar Energy - Perimeter fencing Perimeter fencing is needed to secure the site and protect the solar panels from damage. Farming landowners who want to continue to graze the lands around and under the solar arrays will be provided access to all fences areas and will be able to access them whenever they want. The perimeter fencing is usually planted also, to screen the solar panels from view. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea616b0d28a01342fb035b9/1587943098222/ Solar Energy - Long-term income for farm families Solar energy has the potential to become an important income stream for Irish farm families and landowners. It offers a long-term, guaranteed income stream, allowing farmers to work less in their later years but still enjoy the same or a higher level of income they had been used to. The additional income from an AIP solar farm project gives farmers and landowners an opportunity to better utilise their land and farm another type of produce, solar energy! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea5bf6eccd2820f986cc932/1587920758289/ Solar Energy - Solar panels Solar panels are rectangular modules that convert the sun’s light into electrical energy. A standard solar panel consists of a layer of silicon cells, a metal frame, a glass casing and wiring to allow current to flow from the silicon cells. Silicon is a material with conductive properties that allow it to absorb and convert sunlight into electricity. When light interacts with a silicon cell, it causes electrons to be set into motion, which initiates a flow of electric current. This is known as the “photovoltaic effect,” and it describes the general functionality of solar panel technology. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea6088e991f1c6676f0b49b/1587943238404/ Solar Energy - Electricity substation The electricity substation is where all the cables carrying electricity generated by solar panels and are run back to and the electricity transformed to a higher voltage before being transmitted off-site and on to the national electricity grid. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea61727592a27104f62d466/1587943222495/blob Solar Energy - Inverters Inverters convert the alternating current (AC) generated by the solar panels into direct current (DC) which is needed for export to the national electricity grid. Smaller inverters can be mounted behind the panels on the frames, or larger inverters can spaced throughout the solar farm collecting the power from multiple arrays. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea57339a9fa910a7da6d03d/1587901247021/ Solar Energy - Partnering with landowners Once we identify an optimum site for a solar farm, AIP partners with landowners who are happy to accommodate the project on their lands to progress the project. Landowners know their land better than anyone and we value their input from the earliest stages. Our staff and agents meet landowners to outline the potential of their land, explain the project development process and take feedback from the landowners. Large-scale solar farms will be new features in the Irish countryside when they are built in the coming years. Like with anything new, it is understandable landowners and neighbours will have questions and queries about what a solar farm would mean for them. We welcome these questions as they give us a chance to build a relationship and trust with our long term partners. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea616ea80247c491e4a07f4/1587943157344/blob Solar Energy - Solar arrays Solar arrays are collections of solar panels mounted on frames that point in a southerly direction to catch as much sun as possible. The frames, which hold 3-4 panels and can be tens or hundreds of metres in length, are spaced apart to ensure one doesn’t cast a shadow on another. The frames are secured in the ground using mini-piles or ground screws, making their installation quick without needing large-scale groundworks or heavy machinery. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea574373459dd34b6993c8d/1587901501304/ Solar Energy - Supporting landowners at every step AIP uses expert consultants to identify optimum solar farm sites, carry out all the environmental surveys and assessments required and eventually secure planning permission. Developing a solar farm can take a few years from site identification until the project is built and generating electricity. We support landowners every step of the way and engage with local neighbours and communities when the details of a project begin to firm up. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea572f500047c5743d75348/1587901181733/ Solar Energy - Solar energy: a bright future AIP is working across Ireland to develop large-scale solar farms. Although no solar farm has been built in the Republic of Ireland to-date, a number have been built in Northern Ireland where Government supports have existed. Advances in solar panel technology have already made solar energy the dominant renewable technology in some parts of the world and falling costs will see solar farms become commonplace in Ireland. Solar energy is set to play an important part in Ireland’s energy mix over the next decade, with the Government’s climate action plan calling for up to 1,500MW of large-scale solar energy to be installed by 2030. https://www.atlanticinfrastructure.ie/wind-energy daily 0.75 2020-12-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea20e73d0f14330e3d34055/1587682149843/civils_duct-533x533.jpg Wind Energy - Underground cables Underground cables connect each turbine back to the wind farm’s electricity substation, and are usually run alongside the internal access roads. All cables are safely buried at a depth that will not interfere with farming operations. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea7588efc5a36539794e636/1588025501806/ Wind Energy - Projects co-designed with landowners AIP is adopting a new approach to designing wind farms in Ireland. We recognise the intrinsic bond between farmers and their land and the responsibility to act as custodians for the next generation. With this in mind we will work with the landowners to not only design a wind farm that integrates into their existing farming practice but will form a vital additional income stream for this and the next generation. Once we identify an optimum site for a wind farm, AIP partners with landowners who are happy to accommodate the project on their lands to progress the project. Landowners know their land better than anyone and we value their input from the earliest stages. Our staff and agents meet landowners to outline the potential of their land, invite their lands to be made available, explain the project development process and take feedback from the landowners. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea2a3fa0793ed73ac1fb1b3/1587717120144/5514372323_0f2068338f_b.jpg Wind Energy - Wind measurement mast A wind measurement mast is used to measure wind speeds on site and compare those speeds to other wind speeds across the country to predict how much electricity the wind farm will produce based on the weather forecast for days ahead. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea75931432d1d76762318e1/1588025660372/ Wind Energy - Our partner landonwers AIP seeks to involve as many landowners as possible in our projects to secure broad local support and spread the benefits of the wind farm. Even if a landowners’ land is not suitable for locating a wind turbine, it can be important for road access to get the turbines into the site or the wires to get the electricity out. AIP prides itself on its approach of working with its partner landowners to co-design the best wind farm project on each site. While it will be in everyone’s interest to maximise the wind energy potential of a site, individual landowners’ requirements and preferences are always paramount in our design approach. We keep our partner landowners involved at every stage of the design process, walking the land with them whenever necessary before picking the preferred locations and routes for the different parts of the wind farm. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea758ddac4fc559bd24dccb/1588025573409/ Wind Energy - Long term, additional farm income Wind energy has become an important additional income stream for many Irish farm families, allowing them to diversify their farm businesses. It also offers a long-term, guaranteed income stream, allowing farmers to work less in their later years but still enjoy the same or a higher level of income they had been used to, or set something aside for future generations. The additional income from an AIP wind farm project gives farmers and landowners an opportunity to better utilise their land and farm another type of produce, wind energy! Given the size of the footprint of the turbine, it is possible to design the layout of the wind farm such that it doesn’t negatively impact existing agricultural operations. Managed correctly the wind farms can be seamlessly integrated into the existing farming practice. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea75b1b3ee50562882cb1db/1588026147633/ Wind Energy - Landowner support Developing a wind farm can take many years from site identification until the project is built and generating electricity, during this time AIP uses expert consultants to identify optimum wind farm sites, carry out all the environmental surveys and assessments required and eventually secure planning permission We support landowners every step of the way and engage with local neighbours and communities when the details of a project begin to firm up. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea20c798562885819f24c2d/1587682156101/Skartaglen-wind-farm.jpg Wind Energy - Electricity subststion The electricity substation is where all the cables electricity generated by each wind turbine are run back to and the electricity transformed to a higher voltage before being transmitted off-site and on to the national electricity grid. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea758415474b84e549ba1bf/1588025424826/ Wind Energy - Wind energy: a proven technology AIP is working across Ireland to build a portfolio of wind farm projects that will meet Ireland’s increasing demands for clean, renewable energy. Wind energy has been the renewable technology of choice in Ireland for nearly 20 years. Our excellent wind speeds make the country an ideal location for harnessing that potential energy. There are already over 350 wind farms on the island of Ireland, generating over 5,000MW. Every AIP wind farm project will contribute to delivering the extra 4,000MW of wind energy required by the Government’s Climate Action Plan by 2030, aimed at decarbonising the Irish economy and tackling climate change. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea20c041fc3a02358478bcf/1587682109965/An_access_road_at_Minsca_Wind_Farm_-_geograph.org.uk_-_994215.jpg Wind Energy - Access roads Access roads are vital to transport the turbine parts and other equipment to the site. Existing farm tracks are often upgraded or new roads built where necessary. Once the wind farm is built, farmers have the use of these roads for their own farming needs. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea20f686796601f951a7d87/1587682159777/05015_battery_2_opt.jpeg Wind Energy - Battery storage Battery storage units allow excess wind energy generated by the wind farm to be stored when it might not be needed by the national grid. It can then be released later when it is needed. Battery storage units are like shipping containers, with all the battery and electrical parts safely secured inside the container. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e676bf9fdfdbf737a223fed/t/5ea21c82a36a88524b9dd45e/1587682441319/bbfc1e8b-4b74-4f22-89f5-17dfdad25ce1__e82b457b-9d0b-4ea8-86bd-34721e7e95e9.jpg Wind Energy - Wind turbines Wind turbines harness the wind to convert its potential energy into electricity. Typically, the larger the turbines, the more energy they can produce. Turbines have increased in size over the years as technology and engineering has evolved, and the average turbine being applied for in the Irish countryside in recent years has been between 160 and 200 metres in height.