Tagged: Wave Energy
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Researchers envision New York state powered entirely by renewables News
12.03.2013 Imagine a state powered only by renewable energy. It’s possible, according to US researchers who have mapped out an alternative energy future for New York that includes jobs and... -
West of Ireland wave energy project gets €19.8m in EU funding News
18.12.2012 The European Commission has today awarded €19.8m in funding to the WestWave wave energy project off the west coast of Ireland. The project, which is being led by ESB, will...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Energy -
Wave-powered robot reaches Australia after Pacific Ocean crossing News
06.12.2012 A wave-powered robot has completed a 9,000 nautical mile journey from San Francisco, California, to Australia after setting off just over a year ago to collect and transmit... -
Ocean energy innovation and where Ireland is positioned (interview) News
19.10.2012 This week Dublin was the setting for a three-day global conference on ocean energy. Before the event closed up today, Siliconrepublic.com spoke to Eoin Sweeney, head of ocean...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy -
Ireland’s Ardnacrusha hydro-electric power station - a clean-tech exemplar? News
14.08.2012 This year marks the 83rd anniversary of the opening of the hydro-electric power station Ardnacrusha, a civil engineering feat that took four years to complete before it opened...Tags: ESB, Siemens, Ireland, Enda Kenny, Electricity, Wind Energy, Wave Energy, Tidal Energy, Clean Energy -
Ireland and Washington to explore clean-tech business alliances News
04.07.2012 Against the backdrop of today being Independence Day in the US, a delegation from Washington State’s Department of Commerce has visited the Sustainable Energy Authority of...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Green, Government, Engineering, Energy, Economy -
Clean-tech firm Wavebob wins SmartBay Innovator of the Year News
03.07.2012 Ocean wave power company Wavebob has today been recognised as one of Ireland’s leading engineering and research companies after it won the SmartBay Innovator of the Year award... -
SMEs pitch their technologies at SmartOcean Innovation Exchange in Galway today News
03.07.2012 This morning in Galway at the SmartOcean Innovation Exchange, which is taking place as part of the Volvo Ocean Race Global Village, 22 SMEs – both Irish and international – are... -
Irish and UK energy ministers to discuss electricity trading tomorrow News
19.06.2012 Ireland’s Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, will be in London tomorrow to meet with the UK’s Energy Minister Charles Hendry, MP. The two ministers will be discussing a potential...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Engineering, Energy -
Eirgrid to hold capacity auction for firms to trade energy on East West Interconnector News
12.06.2012 Energy infrastructure company Eirgrid has today announced details about how companies can bid to trade energy when the East West Interconnector, the underground and undersea... -
Germany tops in renewable energy production - report News
12.06.2012 European countries, led by Germany, receive more of their electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, tidal and wave sources than any other region in the world, a US Natural... -
IWEA welcomes Govt’s renewable energy strategy News
29.05.2012 The Irish Wind Energy Association has reacted favourably to the Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy Strategy. It claims that Ireland’s wind-exporting drive could attract...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Government, Engineering, Energy, EconomyTags: R&D, Jobs, exporting, Pat Rabbitte, Wave Energy, Tidal Energy, Offshore Wind, Ireland, Wind Farms, Wind Energy, -
Free training around wave technologies on offer in Cork News
27.03.2012 The Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network (MARINET) is offering a free, week-long course on the experimental testing of wave energy convertors at University College Cork...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Education, Economy -
Ireland’s energy infrastructure challenges – report News
27.02.2012 Engineers Ireland has today brought out its analysis of Ireland’s energy infrastructure. According to the body, Ireland’s energy infrastructure in Ireland has served the country...Categories: Careers and Employment, Communications, Economy, Education, Energy, Engineer, Engineering, Green, Green Tech, Investments, Project Management, R&D, Science -
Ocean Energy to deploy €9m device at UK marine energy test site News
08.02.2012 Irish company Ocean Energy has today landed a major contract to provide the first wave device to the offshore marine energy test site Wave Hub in Cornwall by the end of the...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, R&D, Investments, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, Careers and Employment -
Irish, NI and Scottish governments to pursue €7bn joined-up energy grid? News
27.01.2012 The ISLES project, a collaboration between the Irish Government, the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, is reportedly planning to create a joined-up energy... -
US clean-tech investments leap to US$1.1bn. Where's Ireland at? News
04.11.2011 Ernst & Young analysis reveals that venture capital investments in US clean-tech firms jumped by 73pc to reach US1.1bn in Q3 2011, compared with the same quarter last year....Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, R&D, Life Sciences, Jobs, Investments, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Graduate, Government, Global CIO, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, CIO -
Energy and clean-tech challenges for planet Earth News
19.10.2011 Paris was the scene this week for a two-day International Energy Agency (IEA) meeting, when energy ministers from around the globe converged to talk about pressing issues such... -
IBM Science of Cities pulls scientific minds to Dublin News
28.10.2011 As Dublin prepares to be City of Science 2012, it was fitting that European Commissioner for Research and Innovation Máire Geoghegan-Quinn was at the IBM campus in Mulhuddart,... -
Where is China’s clean technology agenda heading? News
06.12.2011 With certain economists predicting that 90pc of the world's feasible coal supply will run out by 2070, how is China reacting to the clean-tech revolution that’s already gripping...Categories: Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Jobs, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green Computing, Green, Global CIO, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Green Tech, Sustainability