EnerNOC Celebrates Opening of New European Headquarters

EnerNOC Celebrates Opening of New European Headquarters and Global Network Operations Centre in Dublin, Ireland BOSTON, MA and DUBLIN, IRELAND, October 26, 2017 – EnerNOC, Inc., an Enel Group company, today celebrated the opening of its new European headquarters and global Network Operations Centre in Dublin’s “Silicon Docks”. An Tánaiste1 and Minister for Business, Enterprise … Read more

World leading research for industry showcased at Tyndall Technology Days 2017

Wednesday, 25 October, 2017: Up to 300 delegates and speakers from some of the world’s most innovative companies, as well as researchers and scientists at the cutting edge of new technologies attended Tyndall Technology Days 2017, Tyndall National Institute’s annual international conference for industry, in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork city, on Wednesday, October 25th. An … Read more

Cork County Council launches international start-up competition for Life Sciences

Cork County Council launches international start-up competition for Life Sciences, Medical Technology and Digital Health Companies.  Cork County Council, endorsed by Enterprise Ireland and Health Innovation Hub Ireland, has today unveiled its ground-breaking partnership with MassChallenge TM, the world’s largest not-for-profit no equity start-up accelerator based in Boston, Massachusetts, with the launch of the first … Read more

AventaMed to achieve FDA clearance with help of €1.8M HBAN-backed funding

HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment and a joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland, today announces a €1.8 million investment in Cork-based medtech company, AventaMed. The investment – which includes €1.6 million angel funding, the largest single HBAN angel investment to date – will … Read more

NEW STUDY FINDS NATURE IS VITAL TO BEATING CLIMATE CHANGE

Washington DC, USA and London, UK, 16 October 2017 – Better stewardship of the land could have a bigger role in fighting climate change than previously thought, according to the most comprehensive assessment to date of how greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced and stored in forests, farmland, grasslands and wetlands using natural climate solutions. … Read more

Ireland undermines EU action on climate change

Minister Naughten’s support for a series of loopholes in EU climate legislation shows lack of commitment to the Paris Agreement EU Environment Ministers meeting today failed to deliver on their commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement.The emissions reduction target in the EU legislation discussed today is not in line with temeprature goals of the Paris … Read more

SEAI says Budget 2018 shows a new urgency to deliver a cleaner future

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) today welcomed the increased funding allocated to it in Budget 2018, which it says highlights Ireland’s commitment  to invest in energy efficiency,  deliver greater change at community level, and  to further decarbonise our energy system. Jim Gannon, CEO of SEAI said: “SEAI recently published detailed energy projections for … Read more

Minister Launches €6.7 million Climate Change Research Initiative Led by University College Dublin

Seán Kyne TD, Minister of State for Community Development, Natural Resources and Digital Development, today officially launched the 5-year Acclimatize project (www.acclimatize.eu/), a new €6.7 million climate change research initiative, with Professor Andrew J. Deeks, President, University College Dublin (UCD). The project has been part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales … Read more

ABP Food Group in €24.5 million UK renewable energy project

€24.5 million investment by ABP Food Group’s renewable division in a green energy plant will produce enough sustainable energy to power the equivalent of 12,000 homes.  ABP’s renewables division, Olleco, has just opened the new 15 MW Anaerobic Digestion facility in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. The ABP Food Group facility is located adjacent to the Arla dairy, … Read more

CRU Publishes Review of Energy Supplier Costs

The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) has today published its analysis on supplier costs in the electricity and gas retail markets in Ireland. This follows the review of how the energy retail market competition has evolved following full price deregulation of electricity and gas retail tariffs that was published in February 2017. CRU reviews … Read more