An example of a Irish small community seeking to produce hydrogen for their own use is Valentia island off the coast of County Kerry. Valentia Island SEC (which aims to establish an energy co-op in the coming months) have recently completed their ambitious SEC Energy...
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Have a Sustainable 2019!
HAVE A HAPPY AND SUSTAINABLE 2019 From all of us at Energy Co-operatives Ireland hover over the map and click for some sustainability ideas, or see the ideas as a list below: (click the headings to follow links) Recycling Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution...
National Renewable Energy Co-operatives Conference
‘People Get Ready’ Thursday, 18 October 2018 from 09:30 to 16:00 Bridge House Hotel, Bridge Street, Tullamore, Co Offaly. The Landscape of the Renewable Energy Sector is set to radically change with the introduction of the new Renewable Electricity Support Scheme...
GENCOMM Galway
On Wednesday March 28th 2018 Cormac Walsh of ECI participated at the NUI Galway Launch of the Smart Renewable Hydrogen White Paper. With the sun beaming down it was a perfect day to be on the NUIG campus and seeing it in all it's splendor. What is the GenComm 9.39...
GennComm Hydrogen Transport Research Project
Energy Co-operatives Ireland as Associate Partners to the GenComm 9.3 Million Euro Intereg funded Hydrogen research project attended the first Workshop on the 14/15th of December 2017 in Saarland, Germany. The aim of the project is to develop three locations...
Communities to be enabled to take a stake in new renewable energy projects including solar
Energy Co-operatives Ireland (ECI) is pleased to announce details of a clever concept in positive collaboration between organised local communities in Ireland, and energy suppliers. Best described as a “progressive shared ownership equity model”, local groups...
Community Power – We are our Renewable Future
Communities call on Government to support Community Owned Renewable Energy Monday, 7th December 2015. Imagine a community putting its hands up and deciding to build a wind farm. Imagine all the schools in a town running on clean free solar electricity. Imagine your...
Community Energy Co-operatives Event
21st October 2015: 12 Newmarket, Dublin 8. As part of Convergence Festival, there will be a one-day seminar in Dublin on 21st October 2015 to discuss the benefits of community-owned renewable energy. The seminar will be addressed by Brendan Halligan, former...
Setting renewable energy example for the country
Minister Alex White, TD, praising the renewable energy co-op on the Aran Islands described how there is a case to be made that the Islands could serve as an example of how the country as a whole could benefit from the transition to low carbon economy. Visiting the...
New Tool to Help Develop Renewable Energy Projects
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Launches New Tool to Help Develop Renewable Energy Projects Project Navigator provides easy, systematic framework to create successful, bankable projects "This new tool makes it easier for project developers to initiate,...