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Farmers using wind turbines made by C & F Green Energy have received a letter from the Athenry-based company announcing that it was stopping manufacturing. A liquidator was appointed last week.
However, the separate company “C & F Turbine Services (Ireland) Limited will continue operations in the wind turbine repair, monitoring, maintenance, parts and servicing business,” the letter adds.
Co Galway farmer Padraig Fahy said he is owed €55,000 after his relationship broke down with C & F Green Energy and he joined a committee to represent 180 creditors in the liquidation of the company.
A Co Tipperary farmer who bought a turbine in 2012 said his biggest concern was to have it serviced. “We were guaranteed 10 years’ service,” he said, adding that maintenance charges had recently increased. However, the company has so far “lived up to their responsibility”, he said.
He and Brendan Lawlor, a farmer from Ballybunion, Co Kerry, both said maintenance teams remotely shut down their turbines and restarted them, as expected, during storm Hannah.
Depending on sources, the number of farmers who purchased C & F Green Energy turbines in Ireland could be anywhere between 50 and 200. The company has declined to comment.
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