Irish-owned renewable energy company BNRG expects to apply to Kildare County Council for planning permission for BNRG Maganey in late summer 2026
Planning permission is being sought for a solar farm in south Kildare.
Irish-owned renewable energy company BNRG has announced plans to seek planning permission for BNRG Maganey, a proposed 105MW solar farm located near Maganey.
The proposed 114 hectares solar farm "is planned to retain existing hedgerows, add new fencing and planting, and utilise buffers and set back from public roads to considerably mitigate any visual impacts and screen the low-lying solar array panels", according to BNRG.
It would sit across two main site locations:
- Beaconstown and Kilkea Upper: The largest site in the proposed solar farm is 80 hectares and is part of a much larger landholding that will remain in active farming. The site wraps around a disused sand and gravel quarry and is entirely screened to the west by established woodland and to the east by trees and scrub. The site is bounded north and south north by farmland with limited direct road frontage
- Crooket and Johnstown North & South: This site includes 34-hectares of land on either side of the L8088, just off the L4010, with plans to maintain and enhance existing hedgerows and fencing. The proposed site for the planned substation and battery storage unit is also located nearby, in an internal field (with no road frontage), off the L4010
A public information and consultation clinic will take place in Castledermot Community Centre on Tuesday, June 16th 2026 from 3.30-6.30pm.
Experts from BNRG and specialist engineering, environmental and planning consultants Fehily Timoney will be at the meeting.
BNRG states that if planning permission were to be granted, traffic mitigation measures would be put in place, during what would be estimated to be a 12-month build to three to six-month low-impact commissioning phase.
The company expects to apply to Kildare County Council for planning permission for BNRG Maganey in late summer 2026.
Subject to planning and procurement, construction on BNRG Maganey is likely to take place from 2028 with scope for the project to be operational in 2029.
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