Wattics, a University College Dublin spin-out company, has been announced as a finalist for the Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards 2012. Wattics is headquartered at NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre. Wattics has developed an innovative ‘smarter metering’ system for businesses. It utilises a software solution to manage their energy consumption via a single … Read more
Energy entrepreneurs based at NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at UCD, have won the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s inaugural Innovation Award. The winning product, the HIDLightSaver, is the result of research by Belfield Technologies into the costs associated with lighting and High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps found in street lighting, floodlit arenas, … Read more
Belfield Technologies, a new energy management venture, has received a runner-up award in the NovaUCD’s 2010 Start-Up competition. Belfield Technologies (www.belfieldtechnologies.com) has developed a technology to assist public and private organisations to reduce their energy costs and associated carbon footprints. The HID LightSaver, a High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting control system, is programmable and compatible … Read more
Ireland has more than three times its total energy requirements available from readily accessible renewable energy sources on its own doorstep. Yet despite access to such vast and plentiful clean energy resources, Ireland is still heavily dependent on volatile foreign fossil fuel, importing almost 90% of its energy needs. As conventional energy sources run out … Read more