Tagged: Electricity & News
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22 energy-efficiency projects to support Irish jobs News
19.06.2013 As part of the Government’s jobs action plan, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) is set to support 22 Irish energy-efficiency projects spanning both the public...Categories: Sustainability, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy -
Irish company Mainstream gets onshore planning consent for Scottish wind farm News
18.06.2013 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...Categories: Sustainability, Research, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Tech, Engineering, Energy -
Central America is at a renewable energy crossroads – Worldwatch Institute News
18.06.2013 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... -
Mainstream inks US$1.4bn deal for wind and solar projects in Chile News
07.06.2013 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... -
SSE claims to have invested €2bn in Ireland since 2008 News
06.06.2013 Energy utility SSE has marked its fifth anniversary in Ireland, with the company claiming that it has invested the equivalent of €1m every day for the last five years, bringing...Categories: Careers and Employment, Energy, Green Tech, Investments, Renewable Energy, Sustainability -
EirGrid creates Twitter feed to share electricity-system information in real-time News
28.05.2013 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...Categories: Sustainability, Social Media, Renewable Energy, Investments, Internet, Engineering, Energy -
Dublin’s digital future on show at Mansion House event (video) News
24.05.2013 During the Open Innovation 2.0 conference this week, a two-day public event was hosted in Dublin’s Mansion House to showcase the exciting and innovative new technologies that...Categories: Sustainability, Research, Renewable Energy, Infrastructure Management, Green Tech, Energy, Education, Digital Media, Development, Apps -
#OI2Dublin – Glen Dimplex CEO on the future smart grid and energy storage (video) News
21.05.2013 We talk to Sean O’Driscoll, chief executive and chairman of the Irish group Glen Dimplex, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of electrical heating technology, about the...Categories: Sustainability, Research, Renewable Energy, R&D, Investments, Engineering, Engineer, Energy -
Gaelectric’s new stg£20m wind farm in Co Antrim to power up to 8,000 homes News
08.05.2013 Irish renewable energy company Gaelectric has opened its stg£20m wind farm in Carn Hill, Co Antrim. The 13.8 megawatt (MW) wind farm is the first fully operational wind farm in... -
Bord na Móna to develop landfill gas-to-energy power plant in Kildare News
26.04.2013 Bord na Móna is to build a landfill-gas power plant in Co Kildare that will utilise landfill gas produced from the decomposition of waste to generate electricity. It expects... -
Scotland reveals stg£15m fund to invest in deep-water wind turbines News
26.04.2013 The Scottish government has announced a new stg£15m fund that will be used to help develop prototype foundations for deep-water offshore wind turbines. -
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... -
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 -
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... -
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,... -
Irish nanoscientist awarded €2.5m ERC grant to pursue nanowire research News
03.04.2013 Prof John Boland, the director of the nanoscience institute CRANN, has been awarded €2.5m from the European Research Council (ERC), to continue pursuing research into how... -
Bentley lights up Crewe factory with UK’s largest rooftop solar panel system News
02.04.2013 Iconic car maker Bentley is driving its sustainability agenda, as the company is about to connect what it is terming the UK’s largest rooftop solar panel system at its factory... -
Ireland achieves record wind energy output to power 1m homes News
28.03.2013 Ireland reached a record level of wind power output of 1,540 megawatts (MW) on the evening of 21 March – that’s the equivalent of powering more than 1m homes with renewable... -
Renewable energy player Gaelectric raises €65m News
25.03.2013 Swedish investment group Proventus Capital Partners and German bank Nord/LB have concluded a €65m funding deal with Irish renewable energy player Gaelectric. The debt finance...