Six Irish offshore wind holding and project companies wound up voluntarily

Six companies carrying the names of two Irish offshore wind sea areas have been placed in members’ voluntary liquidation, with Cormac O’Connor of KPMG Ireland appointed liquidator and creditors required to lodge claims by 20 November 2026. The special resolutions were passed on 9 October 2026 and are advertised in Iris Oifigiúil No. 84 of 20 October 2026 under references C-10A to C-10F and C-13 to C-18.

The notices were filed by Arthur Cox LLP, solicitors for the companies, of Ten Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, and are dated 16 October 2026. Each records a decision of the members taken under sections 193 and 196(4) of the Companies Act 2014 that the company “be wound up voluntarily as a member’s voluntary winding up”.

Every entry carries the standard declaration that “all admitted creditors have been or will be paid in full” — the marker of a solvent members’ voluntary winding up rather than a creditors’ liquidation. The resolutions also authorise the liquidator to distribute to the shareholder, in specie, the whole or any part of the assets of the company, and approve his remuneration and outlay in accordance with the Letter of Engagement. The gazette entries do not name the shareholder, the wider group, or the specific offshore wind projects involved.

Six vehicles across two sea areas

The companies fall into three pairs, one for each sea area named in the notices:

• North Celtic Sea Offshore Windfarm Holdings Limited — winding-up notice C-10A, creditors’ notice C-14
• South Irish Sea Offshore Windfarm Holdings Limited — C-10B, C-17
• North Celtic Sea Offshore Windfarm Limited — C-10D, C-16
• South Irish Sea Offshore Windfarm Limited — C-10C, C-18
• North Celtic Sea Offshore Renewables Limited — C-10E, C-15
• South Irish Sea Offshore Renewables Limited — C-10F, C-13

Liquidator and claims procedure

Cormac O’Connor acts from KPMG Ireland, Stokes Place, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, D02 DE03. Creditors of each company are required, on or before 20 November 2026, to send their names, addresses and particulars of debts or claims, together with the names and addresses of their solicitors if any, to that address.

The notices warn that creditors who fail to prove will be excluded from any distribution made before their claims are received and proved. They also reserve the liquidator’s right to require affidavits in proof of claim and attendance at a time and place he specifies. Publication runs in two steps for each company: the resolution notice recording the winding-up decision, and a separate advertisement of notice for claims, each with its own reference number.

What the notices do not say

The entries are confined to company-law formalities: no statement of assets, no estimate of the sums to be distributed, and no indication of what happens to any offshore wind consents, grid connections or seabed agreements held by the six vehicles. Nor do they disclose whether the companies traded, held assets, or existed purely as holding structures — the “Holdings”, “Windfarm” and “Renewables” suffixes are the only guide to their roles.

For readers, the practical effect is a hard deadline. Any supplier, adviser, landlord or contractor with an unpaid invoice from one of the six companies has until 20 November 2026 to file with Cormac O’Connor at KPMG Ireland, and claims arriving after that date risk being shut out of distributions already made. More broadly, the simultaneous closure of six holding, project and renewables vehicles bearing the names of the North Celtic Sea and South Irish Sea is a public marker of how offshore wind development structures in these waters are being unwound.

Source: Iris Oifigiúil, No. 84, 20 October 2026, section I, notices (official reference: C-10A to C-10F and C-13 to C-18).