Tagged: Electricity
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World’s largest tidal farm to be installed off French coastline News
01.09.2011 French utility giant EDF is divining into the tidal energy expertise of Irish firm OpenHydro to create a 16m offshore tidal installation off the coast of Paimpol-Bréhat, France....Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, Recruitment, R&D, Networks, IT Organisation, IT Management, Investments, Green Computing, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Education, EconomyTags: Green Energy, Green Jobs, Smart Grid, Ocean Energy, OpenHydro, Green Economy, Europe, Electricity, -
Ireland on track to meet renewable energy targets – EirGrid News
26.08.2011 Eirgrid says that with hundreds of wind farms across Ireland offering grid connections for thousands of megawatts of wind energy, Ireland is on track to meet its renewable...Categories: Digital Business, Energy, Engineering, Government, Green, Infrastructure Management, Renewable Energy -
Ireland’s wind energy sector launches KidWind course News
18.08.2011 Gaelectric Group and the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) have set up a new course called KidWind to educate teachers and students about the benefits of Ireland’s wind...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, Jobs, Internet, Green, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Digital 21, Green Tech -
Ireland’s first carbon negative house goes energy positive News
17.08.2011 Ireland’s first carbon negative house, the ileeid house in Co Westmeath, yesterday became energy positive for the second year running, having produced more energy than it used,... -
Electric vehicles set to trigger lithium-ion battery boom News
16.08.2011 Accelerating demand from the electric and hybrid vehicle market, coupled with a decline in pricing, is set to make lithium ion the world’s leading rechargeable battery...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Mobility, Green Computing, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Green Tech -
Beacon Power initiates 20MW New York flywheel plant News
22.07.2011 North America’s largest flywheel energy storage facility reached full capacity yesterday and its 200 flywheels are now providing commercial frequency regulation services to New... -
Mystery surrounds outage at Amazon’s Dublin data centre News
10.08.2011 A dispute has emerged over the events surrounding a service outage at Amazon’s data centre in Dublin last weekend. -
ESB confirms transformer failure, not lightning, caused Amazon outage News
11.08.2011 ESB Networks has said transformer failure, not a lightning strike, caused the loss of electricity supply to customers in CityWest business campus last Sunday, which affected one... -
Technology to harness solar energy after sunset News
10.08.2011 Solar energy giant Brightsource, which is building one of the world’s largest solar thermal power plants (Ivanpah) in California's Mojave Desert, is now developing a system...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Computing, Global CIO, Engineering, Energy, Green Tech -
Yosemite National Park activates solar array News
04.08.2011 California’s Yosemite National Park is blazing a trail in the solar space as it has unveiled the largest ever grid-connected solar array for a national park, with the system set...Tags: Solar Cells, Electricity, Green Jobs, Smart Grid, Solar Photovoltaics, Solar Energy, Solar, US, -
ABB to connect North Sea wind farms to the German grid News
02.08.2011 Power and automation giant ABB has secured an order worth $1bn from Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT to supply a power link connecting offshore North Sea wind... -
Failure to shut down costing UK SMEs millions daily - survey News
02.08.2011 Small businesses in the UK could be spending more than £30bn daily as a result of leaving PCs on standby overnight, according to a new research from energy provider E.ON. -
Sony cuts its global CO2 emissions by 31pc News
27.07.2011 Sony has reduced its global CO2 emissions by 31pc across its business sites and achieved targets set out in its "Green Management 2010" (“GM2010”) mid-term environmental plan. -
Vodafone’s Dublin data centre could be most energy efficient in Europe News
25.07.2011 Vodafone’s Dublin data centre, one of only three owned by Vodafone worldwide, has achieved environmental certification from the influential TÜV Rheinland, which suggests... -
Rabbitte appoints global group to probe North-South smart grid News
25.07.2011 Communications and Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte has set up an an international commission consisting of three seasoned energy experts to review and report, within six months, on... -
Welsh tidal power demonstration to go ahead in 2012 News
22.07.2011 Funding of £11m has been secured for Wales’ first full-scale tidal stream energy generator, which is now likely to be deployed next year. -
NTR’s Wind Capital Group to build Oklahoma wind farm News
21.07.2011 Wind Capital Group has signed a power purchase agreement to sell 150 megawatts of electricity from a wind farm it is developing in Oklahoma to the Missouri-based Associated... -
GE invests in LED cooling technology firm News
20.07.2011 General Electric has joined a US$10m funding round for Nuventix, the Austin, Texas-based producer of LED cooling technology for energy-efficient lighting. -
Irish energy prices remain competitive within Europe, SEAI claims News
18.07.2011 Average gas and electricity prices rose in the second half of 2010, driven by increases in global fuel prices, SEAI said this morning. It claims overall prices in Ireland...