Ireland, Belgium and Britain have signed a new co-operation agreement on renewable energy and electricity interconnections between the three states.
Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan has signed the agreement in Bruges with his Belgian and British ministerial counterparts, Tinne van der Straeten and Andrew Bowie MP.
The joint statement will allow for closer cooperation in offshore wind energy between the three countries.
It also builds on the ambition declared at the North Sea Summit, held in Ostend last year and attended by the then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Ryan, to accelerate the development of…