• RENEWABLE ENERGY

  Bord Gáis to inject €400m into new wind farms

  23.04.2012 BGE to develop a further 250MW of wind energy over the next three years.

  

• CLEAN TECH

  Galway start-up gets €2.8m EU green tech R&D grant

  23.04.2012 Cellulac gets EU grant to commercialise its biorefining technology.

  

• ENGINEERING

  Updating Ireland's electricity grid

  19.04.2012 Grid25 will help Ireland's economic recovery, EirGrid says.

  

• BUSINESS

  Irish Water to run as State-owned Bord Gáis subsidiary

  17.04.2012 Irish Water to be an independent State-owned subsidiary of Bord Gáis.

  

• CAREERS

  Irish clean-tech start-up to create 18 jobs

  12.03.2012 Enverian gets €1m equity investment from the AIB Seed Capital Fund.

  

Latest News

• Apple's Cupertino HQ targeted by Greenpeace activists 15.05.2012

  Two Greenpeace activists today barricaded themselves in a giant Greenpeace version of an iPod outside of Apple's Cupertino HQ in California. Why exactly? Well the tirade from the activists was carried out to appeal to Apple to power its iCloud using cleaner energy instead of coal.

• Bat experts converge in Dublin to talk about windfarms 15.05.2012

  Bat experts from all over Europe, the Middle East and North Africa are at the Eurobats conference in Dublin Castle this week. They are here to discuss how to best protect bats in Europe with the onslaught of clean-tech developments as a result of windfarms, as well as road infrastructure and forestry advances.

• Honda tests 'smart home' in Japan that runs on off-grid energy 11.05.2012

  Honda has been pioneering a new type of smart home in Japan to test out its Honda Smart Home System (HSHM) technologies to control and monitor energy usage using solar power, gas and electric cars.

• Tesla's shares rise as Model S electric sedan to arrive in June 10.05.2012

  Tesla Motors may have just reported first quarter losses of US$89.9m, but the electric car maker also saw its shares jump yesterday after it said that it expects to start deliveries of its new all-electric Model S to US customers in June, earlier than planned.

• Green handset shipments may reach 392m by 2017 09.05.2012

  Are we about to witness a massive splurge in green handsets hitting the marketplace? Juniper Research appears to think so, as its latest analysis is predicting that green handset shipments will reach 392m by 2017, with more than half of these handsets being green smartphones.

• Microsoft vows to be carbon neutral by 1 July 09.05.2012

  Microsoft is pledging to become carbon neutral from 1 July across all of its direct operations, including its data centres, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings.

• World Congress on Water, Climate and Energy in Dublin next week 09.05.2012

  Ireland will next week host a six-day international Congress on Water, Climate and Energy that is being organised by the International Water Association.

• Energia's new €14m wind farm to power more than 9,000 homes 08.05.2012

  Energia is finishing the build of its latest wind farm, Caherdowney, located near Ireland's Cork-Kerry border.

• Siemens reveals 'eHighway of the Future' concept in US 08.05.2012

  Siemens has revealed its plans to clean up US highways that have heavy amounts of truck traffic via its eHighway of the Future solution.

• Clean tech sector in Ireland could generate 80,000 jobs by 2020 07.05.2012

  At least 20,000 and as many as 80,000 new jobs and a boost of €3.9bn to Ireland's GDP by 2020 are possible if Ireland focuses on clean tech. This would require a national clean tech framework.

• Ireland's Green IFSC targets US$200bn worth of asset management 04.05.2012

  Ireland's aim to be a global hub for 'green finance' could see the emerging Green IFSC eventually manage US$200bn worth of green funds, it emerged this week.

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