The owner of Tara Mines, Boliden has secured planning permission to develop a €20m 18MW solar farm on an 84 acre site adjacent to its zinc mine site in Co Meath. This follows Meath Co Council granting planning permission to Boliden Tara Mines DAC for the solar farm which is to provide "a secure source of clean, renewably generated energy to the Tara Mines facility". The proposed development is not to connect to the national electricity grid but will, instead, connect to the existing electricity
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