Tagged: Wave Energy & News
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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 -
The energy economy News
24.11.2011 With energy security a pressing global issue, Bord Gáis Energy is one Irish utility that’s diversifying from natural gas in order to embrace renewables. -
ESB secures €235m European Investment Bank loan News
17.11.2011 ESB is set to sign a new loan facility for €235m with the European Investment Bank (EIB) this afternoon. The loan will be used to fund 'smart' investment in Ireland’s...Categories: Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, Storage, Renewable Energy, R&D, Jobs, Investments, Green, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, Green Tech -
Ireland’s OpenHydro and Imperative Energy scoop awards News
15.11.2011 Dublin hosted the Global CleanTech Cluster Awards last night, when 30 finalists from all over the world congregated in the capital city to vie to win the 10 later stage awards...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Jobs, Investments, Green Computing, Green, Government, Funding, Enterprise, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, Green Tech, Science -
Energia to power up 52 GamesStop stores in Ireland News
14.11.2011 GameStop has signed a new electricity supply contract with Energia. The deal, worth €250,000 annually, will see Energia supply more than two gigawatts to GameStop’s network of... -
Energia in clean energy and gas deal with 33 VECs across Ireland News
24.10.2011 Independent energy provider Energia has won a new dual-fuel energy supply contract to provide 33 city and county VECs around Ireland with gas and renewable electricity.Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Private Irish Business, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Education, Economy, Green Tech -
IBM opens US$50m Smarter Cities Challenge grant program News
24.10.2011 IBM has today opened the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grant program to new applications for 2012. Smarter Cities Challenge is a three-year, 100-city, US$50m grant programme in...Categories: Global CIO, Financial, ERP & Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Engineer, Economy, Green Tech, CIO, Government, Green, Green Computing, Infrastructure Management, Internet, Jobs, Networking & Telecoms, Networks, Project Management, R&D, Recycling Services, Renewable Energy, Sustainability -
Is Ireland losing out to other EU nations on renewables? News
06.10.2011 The Irish Wind Energy Association has today released alarming statistics, asserting that Ireland is losing out to other European nations on renewables, despite having some of...Tags: Green Economy, ESB, Bord Gais, Electricity, OpenHydro, Wave Energy, Solar, Wind Turbines, Green Jobs, Killarney, Ireland, Siemens, Green Tech -
Ocean energy project WestWave gets €238,000 SEAI grant News
02.08.2011 Ocean energy project Westwave, led by ESB, has been awarded a €238,000 grant by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). -
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... -
Ireland’s WestWave wave energy project submits for EU funding News
19.07.2011 WestWave, which is aiming to install and operate wave energy converters capable of generating 5MW of clean electricity by 2015 from the wave energy resources off Ireland’s west... -
Ireland loses out to Scotland in wave energy round News
23.05.2011 With Scotland having secured two major wave power projects in recent days, the Marine Renewables Industry Association (MRIA) says Ireland has lost out in ‘round one’ of the...Tags: Wave Energy, Ocean Energy, -
ESRI energy policy review for Ireland News
27.04.2011 ESRI argues that the current Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff (REFIT) support scheme for renewable technologies such as offshore wind and wave and tidal generation should be...