Project Customer: STATKRAFT

The Monaraha project is a solar farm covering a 70-acre block of land on the outskirts of Cahir in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Completed in December 2024, the project now delivers over 20MW of renewable electricity to the Irish grid. This farm has a 32MWP (DC Capacity) and 21.76 MVA (Inverter AC Capacity).

Murphy were PSCS for the project and completed all civil and electrical installations including internal road installation, DC, LV and MV cable installation, transformer base construction and installation of same, installation of 68 inverters and all cable terminations required for the commissioning of the project.

As the project/Murphy Scope included all Civil and Electrical installations required to facilitate the operation of this solar farm, installation of the site’s infrastructure was key to ensuring access to commence mechanical and electrical works.

Within 4 weeks of arrival on site, Murphy had completed construction of the site compound offices, which facilitate a workforce of over 70 personnel, site laydown facilities to house project plant, materials and stores. All road networks along with associated drainage were also completed ahead of schedule.

The project was ahead of baseline schedule throughout with all Inverters installed to the module framework two weeks ahead of programme.