Owners of Kilroot Power Station to Invest £600m in Lower-Carbon Energy

10th July 2020

Mid & East Antrim Borough Council welcomes £600m investment in eco-friendly power station AFLOAT (photo) adds at Kilroot on the northern shore of Belfast Lough where the plant's jetty as previously reported is supplied with coal to fuel the plant by ship having loaded in nearby Belfast Harbour. This afternoon the cargoship, MV Jolanta (as above) is berthed at Kilroot Jetty after a 'lough' only passage of merely 10 nautical miles (approx) and taking around 45 minutes duration. Credit: Jehan Ashmore

Owners of Kilroot power station near Carrickfergus on Belfast Lough are planning a £600m investment to increase lower carbon generation at the site.

As BBC News reports, it includes an existing plan to convert Kilroot from coal-fired to gas-fired. (See Afloat's coal ship-supply 'within the lough' story and more recent coverage here)

EPUKI propose adding solar generation, battery storage and a multi-fuel combined heat and power facility.

The company said it intended to maintain Kilroot as "one of the prime and core indigenous electricity generation sites in Northern Ireland".

The future of the County Antrim power plant had been uncertain in recent years.

More here on this development from the northern shore of the Lough.

Published in Belfast Lough

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Jehan Ashmore

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Jehan Ashmore is a marine correspondent, researcher and photographer, specialising in Irish ports, shipping and the ferry sector serving the UK and directly to mainland Europe. Jehan also occasionally writes a column, 'Maritime' Dalkey for the (Dalkey Community Council Newsletter) in addition to contributing to UK marine periodicals.

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