Tagged: Electricity & News
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Gaelectric’s new stg£20m wind farm in Co Antrim to power up to 8,000 homes News
08.05.2013 Irish renewable energy company Gaelectric has opened its stg£20m wind farm in Carn Hill, Co Antrim. The 13.8 megawatt (MW) wind farm is the first fully operational wind farm in... -
Bord na Móna to develop landfill gas-to-energy power plant in Kildare News
26.04.2013 Bord na Móna is to build a landfill-gas power plant in Co Kildare that will utilise landfill gas produced from the decomposition of waste to generate electricity. It expects... -
Scotland reveals stg£15m fund to invest in deep-water wind turbines News
26.04.2013 The Scottish government has announced a new stg£15m fund that will be used to help develop prototype foundations for deep-water offshore wind turbines. -
ABB snaps up solar inverter player Power-One for US$1bn News
23.04.2013 Swiss engineering group ABB is aiming to become one of the world’s largest suppliers of solar inverters to target the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry as it is to acquire the US... -
UCC secures ‘green campus’ status for second time News
19.04.2013 University College Cork (UCC) has retained its standing as a ‘green campus’ as a result of its environmental and sustainability drive. The university was first awarded the... -
Africa’s largest solar photovoltaic plant opens News
19.04.2013 Abu Dhabi renewable energy company Masdar has opened a 15-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Mauritania in west Africa. The US$32m plant is being heralded as the largest...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Tech, Government, Engineering, Energy -
Panasonic to donate 100,000 solar LED lamps to regions lacking electricity News
16.04.2013 Electronics giant Panasonic is planning to donate up to 100,000 of its solar LED lanterns to people without electricity in several countries in Africa and Asia by 2018, the... -
ESB International wins €30m contract in Turkey, reaches milestone in Tanzania energy project News
11.04.2013 Global engineering consultancy ESB International (ESBI) has won its first contract in Turkey and has finished a major portion of the energy project it’s managing in Tanzania,... -
Irish nanoscientist awarded €2.5m ERC grant to pursue nanowire research News
03.04.2013 Prof John Boland, the director of the nanoscience institute CRANN, has been awarded €2.5m from the European Research Council (ERC), to continue pursuing research into how... -
Bentley lights up Crewe factory with UK’s largest rooftop solar panel system News
02.04.2013 Iconic car maker Bentley is driving its sustainability agenda, as the company is about to connect what it is terming the UK’s largest rooftop solar panel system at its factory... -
Ireland achieves record wind energy output to power 1m homes News
28.03.2013 Ireland reached a record level of wind power output of 1,540 megawatts (MW) on the evening of 21 March – that’s the equivalent of powering more than 1m homes with renewable... -
Renewable energy player Gaelectric raises €65m News
25.03.2013 Swedish investment group Proventus Capital Partners and German bank Nord/LB have concluded a €65m funding deal with Irish renewable energy player Gaelectric. The debt finance... -
Why you should switch off your lights for Earth Hour (infographic) News
23.03.2013 At 8.30pm today, many people, organisations and landmarks around the world will observe Earth Hour by turning off their lights for an hour to raise awareness of the need to... -
Northern Ireland Electricity battles severe weather to restore service to thousands News
22.03.2013 Severe weather may hamper Northern Ireland Electricity’s efforts to restore power to tens of thousands of customers after blizzard conditions and storm-force winds left them in... -
90,000 Irish homes stopped making tea when Pope Francis was revealed News
14.03.2013 Just before the new Pope Francis was announced in Rome yesterday evening electricity consumption in Ireland fell by 142 megawatts or over 3pc as people stopped using their... -
The Jelly Bean Factory signs €300,000 deal for 100pc green energy from Energia News
14.03.2013 The Jelly Bean Factory, producer of gourmet jelly beans delighting taste buds across the world, has renewed its electricity and gas supply deal with Energia with new terms of... -
Northern Ireland to receive nine rapid charge points for e-cars News
13.03.2013 Power and automation technology player ABB has sold nine rapid charge points for electric vehicles (e-cars) to Northern Ireland’s e-car network. -
ESB reports profits of €194m for 2012 News
13.03.2013 Electricity utility ESB’s operating profit dropped 12pc to €415m in 2012 and profit after tax amounted to €194m, the company revealed in its annual report for 2012, published... -
Welsh tidal array project gets stg£10m in government funding News
01.03.2013 A tidal energy farm project planned off the Welsh coastline this week got a welcome funding injection of stg£10m from the UK government to help progress the development of a... -
The five minute CIO: John Dolan News
15.02.2013 From gas to cloud: the IT technical services and system administrator at Dublin Bay Power Plant (DBPP) John Dolan explains how a gas turbine generation facility has embraced...Categories: Virtualisation, Sustainability, Security, Risk Management, Mobility, IT Management, Infrastructure Management, CIO