Bord na Móna has a new national mission
We are deeply aware of the immense and imminent challenges posed by climate change. The scale of this challenge requires a new national effort to ensure Ireland plays its full part in meeting the worldwide challenge. Bord na Móna is taking a lead in this new national effort. We are decarbonising and building a new, more sustainable business and Midlands economy.
New Energy Strategy
Bord na Móna’s new Brown to Green energy strategy reacts and responds to national and EU decarbonisation policies. In the next few years, there will be a new Bord na Móna. We are accelerating the end of peat harvesting and replacing peat with renewable, greenhouse-gas neutral, biomass energy. This will provide the national grid with dispatchable green energy to support wind and solar generators which have greater variability.
Higher Value Recycling
Bord na Móna is accelerating investment in higher-value recycling and resource recovery business. We take the lead in developing a circular and sustainable waste industry for Ireland (the circular waste economy aims to minimise waste and instead recycle and recover resources wherever possible), targeting new recycling streams in line with national policy.
70%
Peat harvesting reduction by 2019 from its peak in 2013
13
New Wind Farms by 2026
4
New Solar Farms by 2026
1.6
GW Renewable Power by 2026
Leading the Sustainable Economy
Bord na Móna is developing new sustainable businesses in the Midlands. These new businesses, in different ways, support the company’s new mission. The company is progressing its new businesses to support national policy objectives in the areas of energy, food and health. The businesses will also be capable of generating significant sustainable employment in the Midlands for decades to come.
