The chairman of Amarenco, the Cork-based company that has been granted planning permission for more than a dozen solar farms across Cork County has said he anticipated work will commence on the first of these within the next two months. More than 150 containers are due to arrive in Cork from China over the coming weeks containing 120,000 solar panels that will be used in the development of eight of the proposed solar farms. It is estimated it will cost in the region of €32 million to build the solar farms, which when operational will produce enough green power to supply 14,400 homes for a year.