Lower costs, fewer malfunctions: switching to liquid feeding Biogas represents an important component in today’s mix of energy sources in many industrialised countries with huge future potential in Ireland. Ongoing developments in the renewable energy sector are placing new demands on the operators of biogas plants. For many operators, it is simply daily business – … Read more
SSE Renewables and Greencoat Renewables, co-owners of Galway Wind Park, have partnered up with National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), and FORUM Connemara CLG to launch the first ever Galway Wind Park scholarship programme. The new bursary, which is funded by SSE Renewables and the Galway Wind Park Community Fund … Read more
Lansbury Lawrence Primary School is on track to significantly reduce its annual energy use following an upgrade to LED lighting financed by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ Carbon Offset Fund. Lansbury Lawrence Primary School in the Poplar area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a Grade II listed building; built in 1949-50 … Read more
Amazon has bought a second wind farm in Ireland. It comes after the online retail firm announced in April it was to buy all the energy from a wind farm in Co. Donegal. The Cork project will supply clean energy to the company’s web services data centres that power Amazon. Once complete, the wind farm … Read more
Amarenco, the independent renewable energy power company, through its investment platform Infram Energy has reached financial close of the final tranche of a total of €123 million in long term financing facilities for its operational solar asset portfolio, mixing both brownfield and greenfield projects. Led by Amarenco as Infram Energy’s MSA provider and shareholder, the … Read more
Electric cars and renewable energy alone are not going to solve the climate crisis. The biggest carbon generators are not what we might expect. And industry will increasingly need to capture and sequester carbon in order to stop it escaping it into the atmosphere. Carbon is currently public-enemy number one. Across Ireland, as well as internationally, … Read more
MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine hosted by University College Cork has been awarded €9 million for the H2020 project MUSICA to build a pilot multi-use platform which will be a decarbonising one-stop-shop for small islands, including their marine initiatives (Blue Growth) and ecosystems. MUSICA which stands for Multiple Use of … Read more
A biogas support scheme will be required to bridge the cost gap between the current cost of production of biogas and current sale price of fossil gas. This is according to the CEO of the Irish BioEnergy Association (IrBEA) Seán Finan as he was speaking at the launch of a joint policy document calling for … Read more
Energy company Energia has announced a €3 billion investment in Ireland over the next five years. The investment in renewable energy generation will create 200 direct jobs and between 3,000 to 5,000 construction jobs. Energia has operated in Ireland for 20 years and employs 800 people across the island of Ireland. The investment in renewable energy … Read more
Is it all about cars and extrapolation? Not anymore. The unique new IDTechEx report, “Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles 2020-2030“ avoids mindless extrapolation. It uses fundamentals to predict huge changes in the electric vehicle EV business and the way these vehicles store electricity. For example, rejection of poisons and the fact that herbicides becoming ineffective … Read more