Maverick Mainstream promises growth

Following a ‘transformational’ €600 million deal in Scotland, Mainstream Renewable Power is looking to reward shareholders and drive growth with an ambitious global development programme

Eddie O’Connor, the founder of Mainstream Renewable Power, never sold himself short. In the months after he sold Airtricity to Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) for €2 billion, people started calling him ‘the green Bill Gates’. He never objected.

In his days leading Bord na Móna, he wasn’t afraid to call out what he saw as the deadening hand of government and union interference in the semi-state. But then he was flushed out ...