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Clean-tech forum in Dublin explores ‘green’ business opportunities News
22.04.2013 An international forum is today being hosted in Dublin to focus on clean-tech opportunities in cities across Europe and to showcase new innovations from Irish companies.Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Tech, Green Computing, Government, Energy, Economy -
We must continue to Europeanise our energy strategies – EU Energy Commissioner News
24.04.2013 “We must look beyond 2020 to come to a next level of binding energy targets up to 2030 and to agree common energy and climate change policies” – these were the words of the EU... -
ABB snaps up solar inverter player Power-One for US$1bn News
23.04.2013 Swiss engineering group ABB is aiming to become one of the world’s largest suppliers of solar inverters to target the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry as it is to acquire the US... -
DIT and RED-T take part in €6m pan-European solar farm R&D project News
23.04.2013 DIT has joined forces with Dublin renewable energy company RED-T to embark on a three-year €6m European research project on solar energy involving 12 companies across Europe....Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, R&D, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Funding, Energy -
EU ministers to converge in Dublin for energy talks this week News
22.04.2013 Ireland’s Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, will be hosting an informal meeting with EU energy ministers at Dublin Castle this week to thrash out ideas on topics such as ICT and... -
UCC secures ‘green campus’ status for second time News
19.04.2013 University College Cork (UCC) has retained its standing as a ‘green campus’ as a result of its environmental and sustainability drive. The university was first awarded the... -
Africa’s largest solar photovoltaic plant opens News
19.04.2013 Abu Dhabi renewable energy company Masdar has opened a 15-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Mauritania in west Africa. The US$32m plant is being heralded as the largest...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Tech, Government, Engineering, Energy -
All-island renewable energy event zeros in on insurance and investing News
18.04.2013 Finance and investment in the renewable energy sector, as well as planning and project development and insurance, are some of the topics up for discussion at an all-island... -
Scientists converge in Cork to discuss space and maritime sectors News
18.04.2013 The European Space Agency’s (ESA) director of earth observation programmes Dr Volker Liebig is one of the key speakers at a two-day conference that kicked off in Cork this...Categories: Software Development, Software, Science, Investments, Government, Engineering, Energy, Economy -
World needs a rapid expansion in low-carbon energy technologies, warns IEA News
17.04.2013 The drive to clean up the world’s energy system has stalled – these were the words of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) executive director Maria van der Hoeven, who was...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Research, Renewable Energy, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Government, Energy, Education -
Panasonic to donate 100,000 solar LED lamps to regions lacking electricity News
16.04.2013 Electronics giant Panasonic is planning to donate up to 100,000 of its solar LED lanterns to people without electricity in several countries in Africa and Asia by 2018, the... -
Maurice Mortell interview: data centres are the heart of the digital economy (video) News
15.04.2013 TelecityGroup Ireland managing director Maurice Mortell says data centres have become the heart of the digital ecosystem, with vital interconnects between various telcos, cloud... -
ESB International wins €30m contract in Turkey, reaches milestone in Tanzania energy project News
11.04.2013 Global engineering consultancy ESB International (ESBI) has won its first contract in Turkey and has finished a major portion of the energy project it’s managing in Tanzania,... -
Obama homes in on clean tech in budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 News
11.04.2013 Yesterday, US President Barack Obama unveiled his US$3.8trn budget plan for fiscal year 2014. As part of his budget proposals, Obama is calling for a 40pc increase on spending... -
Glen Dimplex to create 37 manufacturing jobs in Portadown News
10.04.2013 Developer of electrical heating products Glen Dimplex is making another investment in research and development and is to create 37 manufacturing jobs in Portadown, Northern... -
Solar financing platform Clean Power Finance raises US$37m News
09.04.2013 US solar software and financing company Clean Power Finance, which provides an online platform to connect the residential solar industry with the capital markets, has raised...Tags: Venture Capital, Solar Energy -
Siemens opens new UK production plant for tidal turbines News
08.04.2013 Siemens has today opened the UK’s first-ever tidal turbine production facility in Bristol where it is planning to test and build tidal turbines that will initially be used in... -
Detroit Electric brand is back with new electric car sporting US$135k price tag News
05.04.2013 Back in 1907 a Detroit, Michigan, company started producing an electric car known as the Detroit Electric and went on to sell 13,000 models up until 1939. Now the brand has been... -
EU launches latest investment fund for low-carbon technologies News
04.04.2013 The European Commission has launched a second call for renewable energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects to apply for funding under its NER300 programme.Categories: Sustainability, Research, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Energy -
Physicists reveal new insights on dark matter from space station instrument News
04.04.2013 Physicists have announced the results of the first data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), which is based on the International Space Station, revealing that the...Tags: NASA,