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The most expensive vacant site in Dublin is the former Player Wills cigarette factory on the South Circular Road, valued at €23.8 million. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Sites worth more than €430m vacant in Dublin

Hoarded development land could accommodate thousands of dwellings

The Dublin Bus network redesign sees the replacement of all existing route numbers with a simplified lettering system. Photograph: Alan Betson

‘False information’ about Dublin Bus agenda slated by planner

TDs, union officials say some communities will be worse off following network redesign

Virtually none of a multimillion euro Government fund set up last year to encourage the use of greener buses has been spent. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

Greener public transport fund has gone virtually unused

Shane Ross announced the €2.5m fund last year as part of climate change measures

The European Court of Justice: The EU says that it has a “number of concerns” about the independence of members of Ireland’s Marine Casualty Investigation Board. Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images

EU questions independence of Ireland’s marine investigations body

Ireland referred to EU Court of Justice over failure to uphold EU law on impartiality

Cyclists on the Waterford Greenway, the longest off-road walking and cycling experience in Ireland. File photograph: John Foley

Walking and cycling route from Dublin to Galway planned

Shane Ross announces €53m National Greenway Strategy in Co Westmeath

Rain is set to return on Thursday night and Friday. A small amount of rain fell last weekend. Here people shelter from it on Dublin’s O’Connell Street. Photograph: Tom Honan

Rainfall’s coming home: but sun will be back before long

Farmers and boaters hit as water levels in lakes and rivers decline

Leanamore Wind Farm in Co Kerry, SSE's newest onshore wind farm, which entered full commercial operation in February 2018. Wind and tidal projects will be key to Ireland meeting 2030 targets.

State of change: How the Irish Government is supporting a green energy sector

Minister for the Environment and Climate Action Denis Naughten is adamant the State will play its part in a green revolution

In the EPA’s latest National Priority Sites List for Enforcement, five sites are listed for persistent failure to meet the necessary environmental standards, four of which are from the agri-food sector

Food and drink sector is worst for environmental compliance

EPA report shows sector has overtaken waste industry for non-compliance

A smart control panel for a domestic heater. Photograph: iStock

Heated debate: making our homes carbon-free

Moving Ireland’s two million homes away from oil to renewable forms of energy is an immense task

Galway Wind Park, Ireland’s largest onshore wind farm, which was co-developed by SSE and Coillte in Cloosh Valley, Connemara.

‘The next 10 years are going to see change that we probably cannot imagine’

The need for urgent action on the climate change crisis will dramatically change the type of energy we use and how we use it

Coal being loaded for transport at a depot in Shanghai, China. Photograph: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News

Industry’s failure to ditch coal a cause for concern

After years of decline, global coal consumption rose by 1 per cent last year

Wind turbines in the Irish Sea. Photograph: Reuters

Wind is changing for offshore energy

Falling costs and technological advances mean that offshore wind farms are once again a viable, and economic, option

The SEI ocean energy buoy moored off Spiddal, Co Galway. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy

Failure to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions is not an option

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland has the onerous challenge of helping Ireland meet EU targets

Billy Costello of Green Generation, Nurney, Co Kildare. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Farming forecast: turning waste into energy

With an economy based largely on agriculture, Ireland is uniquely placed to to generate biomethane using farm waste

Aileen and Neil Walker retrofitted their timber-frame house in Ballyboughal, Dublin, under the SuperHomes scheme.

Plugging the gaps: the benefits of retrofitting

The Tipperary Energy Agency’s ‘deep retrofit’ brings home-owners’ energy bills down from €2,000 to €200

A sea bird amongst the Atlantic waves in Kerry. The Irish Atlantic coastline has some of the most energetic waves in Europe. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Catching the wave: harnessing Ireland’s water power

Offshore wind is seen as the current ‘most immediate’ contributor to meeting Ireland’s 2030 renewable energy targets

SEAI is bidding to make it easier to apply for energy-saving grants. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

‘A lot of people genuinely care about the environment’

People can be nudged into doing their bit to save the planet, the SEAI believes

The sun sets behind an offshore wind farm. Photograph: Reuters

Investing in the future: the institutions funding renewable energy projects

Societal and economic needs along with desire for stable long-term returns are drawing investors to renewable energy

EirGrid chief executive Mark Foley in the company’s National Control Room in Dublin. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

Decarbonisation of Irish economy ‘as big a transition as we have ever seen in the history of the State’

EirGrid is at the heart of an all-Ireland energy system, but it cannot rest on its laurels, its chief executive Mark Foley says

Eirgrid's national control centre room in Dublin. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

Inside EirGrid’s Energy Control Centre

The nerve centre of the Irish energy system tracks every flicker in demand

Jim Gannon Chief Executive SEAI and Paul O’Donnell MD of Unipipe examine a Solar Smart Flower. Photograph: Alan Betson

Solar power: rays of hope

Sunny weather turns minds to reality of Irish homes producing their own electricity

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