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Carnsore Point (Carn tSóir in Irish) is a headland in the very South East corner of County Wexford, Ireland.
It is famous for being the proposed location of the Nuclear Energy Board power plant which was to be built in the 1970s. The plan would have produced electricity for the Electricity Supply Board.
Originating in 1968, the Irish Government gave renewed effort to the plans after the 1973 energy crisis. The plan envisaged one, and eventually four, nuclear power stations, but was (discreetly) dropped in the late 1970s after opposition by environmental groups.
A series of free concerts were held at Carnsore Point in 1978 (18-20 August) and 1979. Titled "Get To The Point" and "Back To The Point" respectively, the concerts were a massive success and served to bring to public notice the whole question of nuclear power in Ireland.
Today Carnsore Point is home to a number of wind generating stations, run by a subsidiary of the Electricity Supply Board. It opened in 2003 and consists of 14 Vestas 850 kW turbines for a capacity of just under 12 MW.
External links
- Nuclear Energy (An Bord Fuinnimh Núicléigh) Act, 1971
- Carnsore: Why Ireland never got nuclear power
- Minister Opens Carnsore Windfarm
- Making the Point: remembering the first festival weekend
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