Renewable Energy

A fundamental shift in the Irish renewable energy landscape occurred in September. With no great fanfare a new grouping came together to represent all(...)

Environmental groups and the Green Party have accused the Government of refusing to back EU proposals to allow community groups and householders to ge(...)

Many of Ireland’s country estate houses have been repurposed as wedding venues, but at the 17th-century Beaulieu House in Co Louth there’s a different(...)

The green agenda’s prominence in business planning rose greatly in tandem with awareness of the threat imposed by global warming. The writings of Geor(...)

A Renewable Energy Incentive scheme to be announced in the Budget will not make the same mistakes as the North’s “cash for ash” scandal, the Minister(...)

Perhaps history was telling us something when Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president happened almost 1,000 years after the coronation of Cnut the(...)

Mainstream Renewable Energy, the firm founded by businessman Eddie O’Connor, has signed a $2 billion investment deal with US utilities giant GE to bui(...)

New studies being promoted this month by Stanford University in California will increase the pressure on Ireland to cut back cattle production and dai(...)

Renewable energy specialist Gaelectric is selling 14 Irish wind farms worth an estimated €400 million to China General Nuclear Power’s European energy(...)

Renewable energy entrepreneur Eddie O’Connor has tapped a former Wall Street investment banker to lead up a new division at his company Mainstream tha(...)