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Eirgrid plans to formally launch a public consultation on plans to meet the Government’s 70 per cent target by 2030.
Planning protests may ‘derail strategies to cut emissions’

Planning protests could de-rail Government plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions unless the problem is tackled now, experts warned at the weekend. Th(...)

Cork-based Irish Mainport Holdings has bought a 50m survey ship, the Oya, pictured above, and taken a minority stake in Wicklow offshore services player, Alpha Marine.
Irish Mainport targets offshore energy business with new ship

Shipping company Irish Mainport Holdings is seeking a foothold in the offshore energy business with the purchase of a survey and research vessel. Cor(...)

New price supports are based on an auction system that favours cheaper, more efficient energy generators. Photograph: iStock.
Energy consumers still in the dark on cost of renewable scheme

* More than 80 energy businesses will be celebrating news that they qualify for price supports under the Republic’s latest scheme to boost the provisi(...)

A High Court challenge has been brought over An Bord Pleanála’s categorisation of an application seeking planning permission for a wind-farm development on sites in counties Cork and Waterford. Photograph: Valerie O’Sullivan
Objector to wind-farm development brings legal challenge

A High Court challenge has been brought over An Bord Pleanála’s categorisation of an application seeking planning permission for a wind-farm developme(...)

The Renewable Energy Support Scheme will have a budget of between €7.2 billion and €12.5 million over five years to 2025. Photograph: Ben Curtis
EU officials back Government’s green energy scheme

EU officials have backed Government plans to get families and employers to pay up to €12.5 billion to support new green energy projects. The Governme(...)

Failure to develop a port in Ireland may lead to work being lost to British harbours such as Mostyn in Wales, or Barrow, which is close to Liverpool, which already service wind farms in the eastern Irish Sea.
Major investment in ports for offshore electricity industry urged

Spending of up to €100 million is needed on at least one port on the Irish coast to support the development of an offshore electricity industry that c(...)

Experts have calculated that, by the end of 2020, consumers and businesses will have paid an extra €1.9bn this century to fund price supports for wind-generated electricity
The cost of saving the planet is rising – and has been for some time

In the 12 months to the end of October 2020, households and employers will contribute about €150 million to wind farms and other renewable generators (...)

The Government’s target is to meet 70% of electricity demand from renewable sources – mainly wind – by 2030. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
State blows this way and that on tackling climate change

Further developments should follow the news that Dublin Array has sought a foreshore licence allowing it to survey the area around a proposed €1.5 bil(...)

The proposed scheme will involve an auction through which those players that provide the cheapest power will get support. File photograph: The Irish Times
Joint venture to build €1.5bn wind farm off Dublin coast

An Irish-German partnership has moved a step closer to building a €1.5 billion wind farm off the east coast. German energy giant, Innogy and Irish pl(...)

Some tech companies are already doing deals to fund renewable electricity generators. Photograph: iStock
Investment of €9bn may be needed to power data centres

Experts say the growing number of data centres in the Republic could require spending of more than €1 billion annually for the next eight years on new(...)

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