A University of St Andrews-led project to create a safe, cheap, long-lasting battery which could revolutionise electric travel and renewable energy storage has been given £12m from a major funding body. The Faraday Institution announced the funding today (Wednesday 4 September) as part of a £55m funding round for research into energy storage. The £12m … Read more
Today Dublin City Council’s Climate Change Action Plan was formally presented to Richard Bruton TD Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment by Dublin’s Lord Mayor Paul Mc Auliffe and Owen Keegan, Chief Executive with Dublin City Council. This is in response to the requirements of the National Adaptation Framework and Action 181 of the … Read more
AES Bord na Móna have continued the upgrade of its waste collection fleet with the addition of 13 new refuse collection vehicles (RCVs) for its Kildare operations. With an asset value of nearly €3 million, these new RCVs operate out of the Silliot Hill civic amenity site in Kilcullen, and will enable AES to provide … Read more
Major players in the oil and gas sector, including Shell, have expressed an interest in the €100 million sale of a wind farm project jointly owned by a company linked to property developer Johnny Ronan. Sources close to the project said the vendors of Codling Bank, a 1.1-gigawatt offshore wind farm, were experiencing such a level of interest in … Read more
As Ireland now lags most of its EU counterparts in terms of meeting our environmental commitments under the Paris Accord for Climate Change and with the potential for annual noncompliance fines in excess of 500M it has never been more important for government and industry to act now and with ambition to collectively reduce our … Read more
Bristol’s commitment to achieving its carbon neutral pledge by 2030 is being realised with the aid of a sustainable housing development, featuring innovative low-carbon heating. Bristol City Council’s 133 homes at Ashton Rise are being built using the high efficiency Sig iHouse solution, and heated by individual Kensa ground source heat pumps connected to a … Read more
THE NEWCASTLE West wastewater treatment plant is now being powered by solar energy, making it one of the first in Ireland to use sustainable energy. Newcastle West was selected, along with Nenagh, Co Tipperary, as part of a pilot project to pioneer the scheme, the effect of which will be to reduce the plant’s carbon … Read more
The Bord Gáis Energy Index gained 5% in July and is now 14% below the comparable period last year. The key driver behind the increase was electricity prices, which gained 17% over the month on lower wind output and outages at key power stations. Oil, the largest component of the Index, was flat on the … Read more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded 10 new patents to Upwing Energy for critical enabling technologies in the company’s downhole rotating tools and proprietary methods used to increase hydrocarbon production and recovery. Upwing Energy has made some intriguing leaps forward in terms of new technology invention in downhole rotating devices, including … Read more
Wisetek Solutions, a global leader in IT asset disposal (ITAD), re-use and manufacturing services, which is headquartered in County Cork, today announced a partnership in the United States with the Washington D.C. Library System and Samsung Electronics America to hold a series of monthly electronic waste recycling events throughout the year. These free events will … Read more