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From early January through to September 2021, electricity market overseers issued eight amber alerts warning that demand had stretched the system close to its limit. Photograph: Alan Betson
Rising demand, stagnant supply: Burning questions for Irish electricity network

Homes and businesses face further energy price hikes in 2022 after natural gas costs soared once again in the days before Christmas. Gas traded at a n(...)

Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre in Dublin in May. Non-essential retail was shuttered for much of the first half of the year. Photograph: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Pricewatch’s 2021: An expensive year for consumers

There is no sugarcoating it. Between Covid, Brexit, supply chain issues and spiralling energy prices it was a tough year for the Irish consumer, as ou(...)

Emily Breslin, a student at Alexandra College plays the harp as Fred Dean and Terry Lilburn from St Ann’s Church on Dawson Street launch their 2021 annual Black Santa Appeal for charities in Dublin. Photograph: Damien Eagers for The Irish Times
Annual Black Santa appeal launched in Dublin

The girls of the Alexandra choir were singing Silent Night as the Luas was pinging out on Dawson St. They were handsome, they were pretty, Queens of D(...)

Derek Scully: ‘The urgency with which we need to address the climate crisis can’t be overstated.’
The best business advice I’ve ever been given? ‘There should be no surprises’

What businessperson do you most admire? I’ve been fortunate to work with some brilliant people and it is their qualities, as opposed to their achieve(...)

Households and employers paid an extra €250 million for electricity over three months this year as State company ESB earned ‘super-normal profits, according to TD Barry Cowen
ESB earning ‘super-normal profits’ amid ‘price gouging’, FF TD says

Households and employers paid an extra €250 million for electricity over three months this year as State company ESB earned “super-normal profits”, a(...)

Shut-downs of both Whitegate and one of Energia’s two plants in Huntstown, Co Dublin, contributed to a squeeze on electricity supplies last winter that prompted formal warnings about stretched capacity. Photograph: iStock
Fresh delay hits Whitegate electricity plant’s return to operation

Further delays have hit the return to action of one of two electricity plants whose temporary shut down hit energy supplies in the Republic last winte(...)

Laura Kavanagh: ‘You just can’t make change the way you would in a family business.’ Photograph: John D Kelly
The family firm: How to survive and thrive when mixing business and family

Laura Kavanagh used to think she would never be regarded as anything except “the boss’s daughter” if she were to return to her native Co Kilkenny to w(...)

Over the past decades hydrogen has been widely used in industry, ensuring safe production, storage, transport and utilisation. Photograph: iStock
How will green hydrogen play a key role in our future?

What is hydrogen? Hydrogen is a versatile, clean and safe energy carrier that can be used as fuel for power or in industry as feedstock. Importantly,(...)

Among the challenges is funding for grant schemes which homeowners can avail of. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Can Government’s ambitious retrofit target be achieved?

A key element of the Government’s Climate Action Plan will see 500,000 homes around the country retrofitted to bring them up to B2 energy rating. This(...)

Grid operator Eirgrid and the Commission for Regulation of Utilities last month predicted that meeting energy demand would be ‘challenging’ this winter. Photograph: iStock
Huntstown electricity plant to restart generating on Saturday

One of two electricity plants shut down since last winter is due to restart at the weekend, but a second will not resume for 11 days after originally (...)

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