John Ashton, CBE, former special representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign Office, is in Dublin for the Climate Gathering. He spoke to Ann O’Dea about climate change, politics and leadership.
18.Jun.2013 17:05
Mainstream Renewable Power, the Irish solar and wind farm developer led by Eddie O’Connor, has been granted planning consent for the onshore cable works to connect its proposed stgŁ1.4bn offshore wind farm, dubbed Neart na Gaoithe, off the coastline of Fife, Scotland, to the national grid.
18.Jun.2013 15:09
While Central America is part of the global transition to renewable energy, with the region a leader in hydropower and geothermal energy and most countries developing wind power projects, a new report from the Worldwatch Institute argues that the sub-continent is still not harvesting enough of its vast renewable energy resources.
18.Jun.2013 13:16
It is gatherings galore in Dublin this week. As well as a meeting of Europe’s digital clusters in the Irish capital tomorrow, representatives from the IT, environmental and community space are descending upon Dublin today to start a three-day workshop about how to go about pursuing a low-carbon, digital economy.
17.Jun.2013 11:20
Facebook’s newest data centre in Luleĺ, Sweden, has just gone live and is handling traffic from the company’s 1.1bn global users. The facility is also powered by hydroelectricity, making its possibly Facebook’s greenest data centre yet.
13.Jun.2013 11:59
Global investments in renewable energy fell by 12pc last year to US$244bn, mainly as a result of lower solar prices and weakened US and EU markets, two new reports released by the UN suggest. Renewable energy investments appear to be shifting to developing countries, however.
12.Jun.2013 18:04
Twenty new jobs will be created with the opening of a new renewable energy asset management business called Amarenco in Dublin. The business, which has an investment fund worth €150m, will focus on solar photovoltaic (PV) investments in Europe.
11.Jun.2013 12:35
In the world today, some 783m people, or 11pc of the world’s population, do not have access to clean drinking water, while every 20 seconds a child dies from a disease related to drinking dirty water. It is against this backdrop that Intel Ireland hosted a one-day summit at the Science Gallery in Dublin today to hear from global experts on the future of water, as well as the technological opportunities.
10.Jun.2013 19:56
Eddie O’Connor’s Mainstream Renewable Power has forged a joint venture with the investor Actis for a US$1.4bn project to bring 600 megawatts (MW) of wind and solar farms to market in Chile by 2016.
07.Jun.2013 11:32
Enverian, the Irish start-up that provides cloud-based software solutions for the renewable-energy sector, has signed a partnership that will see it manage Kedco’s portfolio of electricity and heat generation plants across Ireland and the UK.
05.Jun.2013 16:44
Google has signed a power purchase agreement with Swedish wind farm developer O2 that will see the search giant buy wind energy for 10 years to power its data centre in Finland.
05.Jun.2013 07:00
Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that Lisa Jackson, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US, is to join the company as its environmental adviser.
29.May.2013 17:03
EirGrid has created a new Twitter handle to communicate hourly updates on power system demand, outputs from wind generation, frequency and interconnection flows from the all-Ireland transmission system.
28.May.2013 11:45
Google is to acquire Makani Power, a US company that is developing an airborne wind turbine that is mounted on a tethered wing and can fly to higher altitudes where the wind is stronger. The company will become part of Google X – the search giant’s secretive research lab.
24.May.2013 12:38
Dublin will be the setting for a second Climate Gathering this June to bring together representatives from the worlds of technology, business, politics and culture to share ideas about how to build the clean economy. The organisers are now issuing a call for other thought leaders to participate in this workshop.
24.May.2013 07:30
The solar-powered plane Solar Impulse has set a new distance record for a solar-powered flight as the craft has completed an 18-hour journey from Phoenix, Arizona, to Dallas, Texas – covering a distance of 1,451km.
23.May.2013 14:55
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