ECI welcomes Ministers acknowledgement that there a number of games in town when it comes to large scale renewable energy projects in Ireland. Minister Pat Rabbitte's address to the Midlands Wind Energy Opportunities Workshop in Tullamore laid down a number of...
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...
The UK-Ireland International MoU is very welcome, but the Minister here must keep energy storage options open and remember that community ownership is the best way for Ireland to benefit economically and socially from renewable energy projects. The Irish and...
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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...
Co-operatives UK launches far-sighted set of proposals which ‘sets out a series of policy measures to increase community owned renewable energy and energy efficiency projects’ Their Manifesto for a community energy revolution available to download in PDF here sets...
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...
Energy Co-ops Ireland's plans to establish a large co-operative in the midlands are moving apace. ECI hopes that their initiative will ensure that local people are kept fully involved in any renewable energy developments there, and are engaging with local...