Tara Mines owner gets go ahead for solar farm beside zinc mine

The owner of Tara Mines has secured planning permission to develop a €20 million 18MW solar farm on an 84 acre site adjacent to its zinc mine site in Co Meath.

A spokesman for Boliden said: “As we look to safeguard the long-term future of the mine, we have been exploring ways to improve our sustainability performance and establish greater control over our energy costs.”The Smurfits boost their investment in Kirby’s Tixserve It states that the solar farm providing power to Tara Mines would “insulate the site from large fluctuations in energy costs”.

The report states that capital spend on the solar farm is likely to be approximately €20 million “with a substantial proportion of this being spent in the local, county and regional supply chains”.

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