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Bindoo

Wind power plant in Ulster, Ireland. Approximate location 54.0108, -7.1142.

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Bindoo is a 48 MW wind power plant in Ulster, Ireland. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 40,846 homes (estimated). It ranks #32 of 64 Ireland power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 38.0% of Ireland's electricity; the national grid averages 257 gCO₂/kWh (48.1% low-carbon) (2025).

48MW installed capacity
40,846homes powered (est.)
2007commissioned (~19 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1022849.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Ireland

Knockacummer 1: 87 MW87Knockacumm…Mount Lucas: 84 MW84Mount LucasMeentycat: 72 MW72MeentycatBoggeragh 2: 67 MW67Boggeragh 2Derrybrien: 60 MW60DerrybrienSliabh Bawn: 58 MW58Sliabh BawnBoggeragh: 57 MW57BoggeraghLisheen: 54 MW54Lisheen

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 54.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.9°Cannual mean temp
3,320heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
148 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 10 °CMJ: 13 °CJJ: 15 °CJA: 14 °CAS: 12 °CSO: 9 °CON: 6 °CND: 5 °CD15 °C

Heating degree-days here run 35% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 71/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #9 largest wind power plant of 38 in Ireland by capacity.

Ireland has 38 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 1,287 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 54.0108, -7.1142 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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