Chimney balloons are a very effective product which will stop cold draughts coming down your chimney and prevent heat loss going up your chimney. It is estimated that up to 80% of heat is lost up your chimney every year. Chimney Balloons are an easy way of tackling this problem. Chimney balloons are simply installed … Read more
Dublin-based energy saving company One Call Maintenance has launched a new refrigeration technology on the Irish market that it claims will slash both energy costs and greenhouse emissions by impressive amounts. Invented by UK engineers, the eCube is little bigger than an MP3 player and is simple and economical to fit. The eCube cuts the … Read more
The United States is starting to rely increasingly on ocean wind for energy generation. Last month, the ‘Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium’ was established when US Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the governors from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina signed a … Read more
Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security today, Wednesday, 7th July, to discuss its report Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas Projections 2010-2020. According to the latest report from the EPA, the recession and reduced industrial production have had a significant impact on carbon emissions … Read more
South West College, County Antrim, is the first educational institution in Ireland to sign a ‘heat contract’ with green energy company Rural Generation based in Londonderry, which will see the college save up to £25,000 on heat costs annually. The college, which houses its own Renewable Energy Academy at the Omagh campus, has already been … Read more
Having called for an energy technology revolution to tackle climate change and enhance energy security and economic development, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is seeing the first signs of this happening across the globe. However, it cautions that more needs to be done to achieve the necessary long-term cuts in CO2. The new IEA study … Read more
The Carbon Windfall Levy, introduced in the Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Carbon Revenue Levy) Act 2010, has been signed into law. The levy will apply to electricity generators and recover a substantial portion of the unearned carbon windfall gains that they currently receive through the Single Electricity Market. Under the Kyoto Carbon Trading provisions, electricity generators … Read more
NUI Galway has officially launched its BE Programme in Energy Systems Engineering. The new course, which will be based in the new Engineering Building currently under construction at NUI Galway, has been developed in partnership with key members of the energy industry including; ESB, GE Energy, Airtricity, Bord Gais, Wavebob, a wave energy technology company, … Read more
Dublin’s new unmetered energy efficient electricity supply has been switched on. The energy efficient electricity supply will be used in 768 sets of Dublin city’s traffic lights and 42,500 public lights and will benefit Dublin City Council with major cost savings of up to Eur300,000 annually. This green initiative is one of several improvements included … Read more
The Assembly of European Regions (AER) and GE Energy have launched of REFER (Responsible Energy for European Regions), a blog aimed at facilitating thoughts and discussion on energy matters across all regions of Europe. Available at www.refer.blogactiv.eu, REFER reports on the latest energy news, energy analysis and commentary about the various regional energy markets, energy … Read more