Adam Pullin 2020 marks the 50th annual Earth Day To mark Earth Day 2020, Wisetek, a global leader in advanced IT asset disposal, data destruction, technology reuse and manufacturing services, is calling on Irish companies to ethically manage their e-waste … Read more
April 22, 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of World Earth Day, which has climate action as the theme. The anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions emitted into the atmosphere from various sources (industries, transportation, oil fields, and others) are the principal cause of climate change. The harmful emissions reaching the atmosphere continue to rise due to a … Read more
The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) today published its Renewable Energy in Ireland 2020 report. The report, which is based on 2018 data, provides a detailed analysis of Ireland’s progress towards the 2020 renewable energy targets. Renewable energy sources supplied 11% of overall energy use in 2018 with the remainder coming from carbon intensive … Read more
On 5 April the Irish Single Electricity Market (SEM) experienced a negative day-ahead trading price for almost the whole day. The below graph shows the day-ahead market starting at -€6.0/MWh, before falling as low as -€14.5/MWh at 2:00 pm. Overall, the day saw 20 of the hourly settlement periods outturn negative. Similar movements were observed … Read more
Irish Water, the state forestry company Coillte, and the HSE between them account for one third of all the energy consumed in the Irish public sector. The information is contained in the latest annual report on Public Sector Energy Efficiency Performance published by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. The report analyses the progress being … Read more
In 2009 the Government set a national target to improve energy efficiency by 20% by 2020. It has set the public sector the more challenging target of improving its own energy efficiency by 33%. Since 2009 the public sector has improved its energy efficiency by 24%. To ensure that the public sector fully realise its … Read more
Environmental protection is also a management challenge for Continental. We established the first environmental management system in our company back in 1992. Since the start of the 1990s, environmental protection has been established in our corporate guidelines and we introduced our own management system for this purpose in 1992. By doing so, we acknowledged early … Read more