A more integrated European energy market offers opportunities for an lucrative international market for Irish renewable energy, but will require State level infrastructural support, strong national energy producers and distributors and a vibrant SME energy innovation...
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Acceptance of public submissions for the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government Wind Energy Guidelines Focused Review ended yesterday (Feb 14th). ECI's full submission on the issues of turbine noise and flicker in the proposed revision of the 2006 Planning Guidelines is available here as a downloadable PDF.
Price drop makes solar best solution for developing world
It's being reported that a drop in the price of solar panels in developing countries has led solar power generation to become the most efficient solution to those countries' growing electricity demands. A study published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance has...
Worlds biggest off-shore wind farm opens in UK
Walney Offshore Windfarm is set to open officially with the capacity for its 102 completed turbines expected to be 367MW of electricity: enough to supply the energy needs of 320,000 homes (that's 30,000 more households than there are in the Dublin City Council area)...