Perigus Energy has completed its first Irish solar farm, an 81MW facility at Garreenleen, County Carlow, giving the platform its first operational solar asset since relaunching from Orsted's former European onshore business in April and reinforcing how quickly it is diversifying beyond the onshore wind portfolio it inherited. The site, now fully operational, can supply electricity equivalent to 29,000 Irish homes.

Perigus Energy is a Cork-headquartered developer of onshore wind, solar and battery storage projects across Ireland, Germany, the UK and Spain, backed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners following its April 2026 relaunch from Orsted's former European onshore business.

Perigus won the contract for Garreenleen under Ireland's Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS 3) auction in October 2023 and began construction in June 2024. About 10% of the site is ringfenced for biodiversity enhancement, with more than 1.2 kilometres of native hedgerows planted for screening and ecological corridors.

The completion lands just weeks after Perigus appointed Eamonn Boland as chief commercial officer, its first senior commercial hire since the Orsted rebrand, giving the new leadership an operational solar asset to point to almost immediately rather than a purely development-stage pipeline.

Garreenleen was secured through the RESS 3 auction, one of the mechanisms underpinning Ireland's push toward 80% renewable electricity by 2030, and its roughly 21-month build timeline from contract to construction start illustrates the delivery speed policymakers need repeated at scale if that target is to be met.

The project also signals Perigus's ambitions extend beyond Ireland: the company is separately developing the 740MW One Earth solar farm in the UK, which cleared UK government approval this year, positioning it as a cross-border solar developer rather than a purely wind-focused platform inherited from Orsted.

For the sector, a fund-backed platform delivering both wind and solar assets within months of its own corporate relaunch is a useful marker of how quickly ownership changes can translate into completed capacity, rather than years of integration delay.

Source: Renewables Now