New research claims renewable power from wind could meet 31% of the European Union’s total target for emissions cuts by 2020. On top of that, and according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), if emissions avoided by using other renewable electricity technologies are included then almost half (48%) of the European Union’s (EU’s) target … Read more
Almost 10% of energy consumed in Northern Ireland is from renewable sources. The amount of power generated has increased to 755,000 megawatt hours in the last 10 years, a report for the Department of the Environment said. Richard Murphy, a lawyer in the Belfast office of McGrigors law firm and expert in renewable energy, said … Read more
The world’s first turbine capable of generating commercial amounts of energy was due to be installed in the seabed off Co Down today. The £12m, 300-tonne SeaGen tidal generating machine was due to be transferred from Harland and Wolff’s shipyard in Belfast to be embedded in Strangford Lough – one of the world’s fastest flowing … Read more
An Armagh refrigeration company has won a prestigious national award for its energy-saving refrigeration solution at a meat processing plant. Shilliday Refrigeration picked up the prize for ‘Industrial and Commercial Project of the Year’ at the RAC Cooling Industry Awards, which cover the refrigeration and air conditioning industry. Entries from nearly every major name in … Read more
Irish tidal energy company, OpenHydro has been chosen by the Global Cleantech Cluster Association as a 2011 Later Stage Award Top 30 finalist. Inclusion in the GCCA Global Top 30 reflects the strong business and market position of the company in the marine renewables sector, and signifies that its innovative approaches and technologies are gaining … Read more
Dublin-based renewable energy and energy storage group Gaelectric and XEMC VWEC, part of the Chinese XEMC Group, are co-developing three Irish wind farms. The venture will see the first commercial deployment of XEMC VWEC wind turbines in Europe with the deployment of the new XV90 turbines at three Gaelectric on-shore sites – Roosky in County. … Read more
The US Department of Energy has awarded German-based gases and engineering company the Linde Group a $15 million grant for the advancement of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technologies. Linde’s pilot plant, to be built in Wilsonville, is scheduled to be operational by early 2014. The facility will test novel CO2 scrubbing solutions to reduce the … Read more
Statoil has confirmed that the recent Aldous and Avaldsnes oil discoveries in the North Sea are connected and may represent an oil structure of between 500 million and 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. If the upper part of the interval strikes pay dirt, the discovery will be one of the ten largest oil … Read more
Wind energy in the EU will more than triple its power output by 2020 with Eur194 billion invested in European onshore and offshore wind farms during this decade, predicts the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). Electricity production from wind power is expected to increase from 182 Terawatt hours (TWh) or 5.5% of the total EU … Read more
Calor has launched a Home Energy Grant for Irish homeowners, which is designed to run in parallel with the Government’s Better Energy retrofitting programme launched in April of this year. There are over 600,000 homes in rural Ireland that cannot access the natural gas network. By choosing Calor, rural dwellers can have gas delivered to … Read more