Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. is a privately held renewable energy

Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...

 development company founded in 2008 by Eddie O'Connor

Eddie O'Connor

Eddie O’Connor is retired Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Glenmore and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...

 and former Airtricity

Airtricity

Airtricity was founded in 1997 in the Republic of Ireland and now is a renewable energy company owned by Scottish and Southern Energy...

 staff following the sale of Airtricity to E.ON

E.ON

E.ON AG, marketed with an interpunct as E•ON, is the holding company of the world's largest investor-owned energy service provider based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The name comes from the Greek word aeon which means eternity....

 and Scottish and Southern Energy. The company's head office is located in Dublin, Ireland, with additional offices located in regions of substantial development interests: Berlin, Chicago, Cape Town, London, Santiago, and Toronto. Mainstream is a founding member of the Friends of the Super Grid group, seeking to promote the super grid

Super grid

A super grid is a wide area transmission network that makes it possible to trade high volumes of electricity across great distances. It is sometimes also referred to as a "mega grid".-History:...

 policy agenda at European level.

Projects

Renewable energy projects being developed by Mainstream include:

• Neart Na Gaoithe
  Neart Na Gaoithe
  In February 2009, Mainstream Renewable Power was awarded exclusive rights to develop Neart Na Gaoithe , a £1.1bn offshore wind farm with a potential capacity of 420 MW in the outer Firth of Forth, some 30 km north of Torness.In 2011, surveyors conducting a detailed preparatory survey of the...
  
  offshore wind farm, Scotland