18.06.2013 John Ashton, CBE, former special representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign Office, is in Dublin for the Climate Gathering. He spoke to Ann O’Dea about climate change, politics and leadership.
18.06.2013 Mainstream Renewable Power, the Irish solar and wind farm developer led by Eddie O’Connor, has been granted planning consent for the onshore cable works to connect its proposed stg£1.4bn offshore wind farm, dubbed Neart na Gaoithe, off the coastline of Fife, Scotland, to the national grid.
18.06.2013 While Central America is part of the global transition to renewable energy, with the region a leader in hydropower and geothermal energy and most countries developing wind power projects, a new report from the Worldwatch Institute argues that the sub-continent is still not harvesting enough of its vast renewable energy resources.
12.06.2013 Global investments in renewable energy fell by 12pc last year to US$244bn, mainly as a result of lower solar prices and weakened US and EU markets, two new reports released by the UN suggest. Renewable energy investments appear to be shifting to developing countries, however.
07.06.2013 Eddie O’Connor’s Mainstream Renewable Power has forged a joint venture with the investor Actis for a US$1.4bn project to bring 600 megawatts (MW) of wind and solar farms to market in Chile by 2016.
06.06.2013 Energy utility SSE has marked its fifth anniversary in Ireland, with the company claiming that it has invested the equivalent of €1m every day for the last five years, bringing its total investment in Ireland to over €2bn since 2008.
05.06.2013 Enverian, the Irish start-up that provides cloud-based software solutions for the renewable-energy sector, has signed a partnership that will see it manage Kedco’s portfolio of electricity and heat generation plants across Ireland and the UK.
29.05.2013 Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that Lisa Jackson, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US, is to join the company as its environmental adviser.
28.05.2013 EirGrid has created a new Twitter handle to communicate hourly updates on power system demand, outputs from wind generation, frequency and interconnection flows from the all-Ireland transmission system.
24.05.2013 The Marine Institute in Galway was today the setting for the signing of an agreement between the EU, the US and Canada to pave the way for collaborative scientific and observational research into the Atlantic Ocean.
