ECI congratulates Irish Company RedT on its acquiring a £3.5m grant from the UK's Dept of Energy (DECC) to develop a utility scale energy storage system on the Scottish Island of Gigha. The Gigha project will involve the installation of a 100kw/1.26MWh RedT...
While anti-wind critics have imagined scenarios to the contrary research from Spain proves that even with high penetration, wind power reduces overall carbon emissions. The study from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain states '...the global balance...
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...
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Romanian Onshore Wind energy generation takes a massive leap forward with the opening of the largest onshore wind farm in Europe. The 600 MW CEZ project has installed 240 2.5Mw GE turbines which has the effect of boosting Romania's onshore wind generation by...
Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) predicts that unless policy makers adopt radical new measures to reduce the level of carbon emissions, the world faces a dangerous two degrees centigrade increase in our lifetimes. They even suggest that this estimate is on the...
Minister clarifies the future for energy conservation and renewable production sector. While there were many good points made by the Minister the issue of supportive community involvement in renewable developments is still not really addressed. Pat Rabbitte’s...
While there are genuine concerns for communities that host wind turbines, there is always a tendency for some who oppose a social or technological innovation to overstate their case - sometimes muddying the waters and sometimes straying into nonsense. In an...
Midland's group calls for greater local stakeholder involvement Mainstream Renewable Power has announced that it has secured a further €60 million to finance its projects in various international locations after securing an investment facility from Macquarie,...
Dutch Renewable Energy Group and economists call for indebted countries to grant land concessions to renewables investors. The proposals would see the granting of development access to land by the Irish, Portuguese and Greek governments in exchange for credits which...