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As part of its social employment mandate, the station received Public service obligation support until 2019. On 11 December 2020 the station ceased all power production after permission to continue burning peat was refused. Although local groups and leaders hoped that the plant would be converted to
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of power, thus ranking as the largest peat-fired power station in the country. The power station was constructed adjacent to (and as a replacement of) the ageing
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The Station directly employed approx forty full-time with additional contract and part-time staff. The Station further supports employment in the Semi State
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grid stability plant started construction at the site in 2022, expected to complete by 2024 a cost of €130 million.
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peat Shannonbridge Power Station, which operated in stages from 1965 to 2003, and demolished in 2005.
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alternative use, the plant's owner has announced that the plant will be demolished and the site
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which supplied West Offaly with milled peat from the surrounding bogs.
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This article about an Irish building or structure is a
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Peat-fired power stations in the Republic of Ireland
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"ESB to demolish West Offaly Power Station"

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