As per the report, the company will build an open-cycle gas turbine to generate electricity, which is expected to be completed in 2012 and four years later, it will start phase two of the project, a combined cycle gas turbine.
For buiding the power station, an environmental impact assessment will be a key part of the planning application and Endesa is now in the process of completing the assessment.
Maurice Kelly, the project manager, told Kerryman: “We would be fairly confident of its impact on the environment being minimal as it will be powered by natural gas, which is very clean.
“Similar technologies are being rolled out in Cork now and it’s regarded as a proven system and from an emissions point of view it will be a big improvement on the existing plant.”
