# wind-energy - Saturday 28 December, 2019
# Climate Action
# Climate Action
The amount of electricity generated from renewable sources must rise from 30% to 70% by 2030.
# wind-energy - Thursday 19 July, 2018
# Unfair Dismissal
# Unfair Dismissal
The former technician at the wind farm services company won his unfair dismissal case at the Workplace Relations Commission.
# wind-energy - Monday 9 July, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
That’s where offshore wind energy comes in, writes Stephen Wheeler.
# wind-energy - Wednesday 11 January, 2017
# Power Up
# Power Up
That is an all-time record.
# wind-energy - Thursday 15 September, 2016
# Energy Independence
# Energy Independence
A complainant said the ad, which features a haunting voiceover speech by JFK on Ireland’s destiny, ran foul of a ban on political advertising.
# wind-energy - Sunday 8 May, 2016
# Your Say
# Your Say
The new minister for natural resources wants more public consultation on the issue.
# wind-energy - Monday 29 February, 2016
# Breath Of Fresh Air
# Breath Of Fresh Air
The energy fund is set to start work on several wind farms in Ireland this year.
# wind-energy - Wednesday 6 January, 2016
# Sponsored By Wind Energy
# Sponsored By Wind Energy
Did you know we’re one of the most energy-dependent countries in Europe?
# wind-energy - Wednesday 25 March, 2015
# Electric Shocks
# Electric Shocks
Profits are down at the semi-state, but it’s still delivering a €300 million windfall to the government.
# wind-energy - Thursday 19 March, 2015
# No Spin Zone
# No Spin Zone
There has been a lot of debate about the country’s energy mix for the future.
# wind-energy - Wednesday 24 December, 2014
# wind-energy - Monday 15 September, 2014
# NIMBY
# NIMBY
The Labour Party deputy leader was speaking to local radio in Waterford this morning.
# wind-energy - Saturday 2 August, 2014
# Tipperary
# Tipperary
Planning permission had previously been refused due to concerns over the site’s impact on a protected bird species and local bogs.
# wind-energy - Sunday 15 June, 2014
# Turbines
# Turbines
Members of the public have been granted access to a number of wind farms to mark the day.
# wind-energy - Sunday 20 April, 2014
# European Elections
# European Elections
Currently a Dundalk town councillor, Dearey will be running in the new Midlands-North-West constituency.
# wind-energy - Tuesday 15 April, 2014
# Protest Goes On
# Protest Goes On
Campaigners claim that nothing has changed after the weekend’s announcement that a deal couldn’t reached with the UK on wind energy export.
# Wind Energy
# Wind Energy
Wind Aware Ireland said that the Government’s wind energy policy is a “completely ineffective way of reducing C02″.
# wind-energy - Monday 14 April, 2014
# Exports
# Exports
He was hesitant to state whether Ireland would support sending an EU security force to Ukraine.
# wind-energy - Sunday 13 April, 2014
# Shelved
# Shelved
Ireland and the UK couldn’t agree on a final deal.
# wind-energy - Thursday 10 April, 2014
# Wind Aware
# Wind Aware
Wind Area Ireland is a launching a site today that it hopes will become a resource for communities, journalists, and policy-makers.
# wind-energy - Wednesday 9 April, 2014
# Breath Of Fresh Air
# Breath Of Fresh Air
The government says it will not oppose a Sinn Féin bill on the height of turbines.
# wind-energy - Tuesday 8 April, 2014
# Ratio
# Ratio
Sinn Féin are set to table the bill today but insists that it doesn’t make them anti-wind energy .
# wind-energy - Thursday 13 March, 2014
# Wild Atlantic Way
# Wild Atlantic Way
Donegal County Council said the turbines height would impact in a negative way on Kinnagoe Bay.
# wind-energy - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
# Oireachtas Agenda
# Oireachtas Agenda
Everything happening in Leinster House today.
# wind-energy - Sunday 9 March, 2014
# In Doubt
# In Doubt
The plan would see up to 1,000 turbines constructed in Ireland but negotiations on this with the UK appear to have stalled.
# wind-energy - Tuesday 4 March, 2014
# Good As New
# Good As New
Project developers would do well to take note of cognitive biases such as the magnificently named ‘endowment effect’ – meaning our tendency to overvalue something because we own it, writes Clare Taylor.
# wind-energy - Sunday 23 February, 2014
# Turbines
# Turbines
Figures show that wind power generation did not meet forecast electricity generator 58 per cent of the time over the past five years.
# wind-energy - Thursday 20 February, 2014
# Power Trip
# Power Trip
Ireland’s economic future is in our hands once again, let’s learn from the past and not mess it up with an unworkable energy policy, writes Steven O’Hanlon.
# wind-energy - Thursday 9 January, 2014
# Green Energy
# Green Energy
An Bord Pleanála said the ten 110 metre wind turbines at Cloghan would injure the visual amenities of the area.
# wind-energy - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
# Opinion
# Opinion
Ireland’s rural citizens are victims of abusive domestic planning and an externally-driven energy policy from Europe, writes Declan Doyle.
# wind-energy - Wednesday 18 September, 2013
# Wind At Their Backs
# Wind At Their Backs
A community-owned windfarm in Tipperary can generate enough power to supply Nenagh with electricity.
# wind-energy - Monday 12 August, 2013
# Green Energy
# Green Energy
The new facility in Carrickeeny will have the capacity to generate the equivalent electricity for approximately 5,500 houses a year.
# wind-energy - Monday 8 April, 2013
# Wind Energy
# Wind Energy
A survey has shown that most industry insiders also think €100 or higher would be a fair water charge for a four person household.
# wind-energy - Saturday 23 March, 2013
# Fracking
# Fracking
Fracking is an emotively driven environmental issue – but the Irish government could do worse than follow the UK in opening up the market here for exploration, writes Aaron McKenna.
# wind-energy - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
# Energy
# Energy
Eurostat figures for 2011, released this morning, show Ireland imported more of its energy than 23 other EU countries.
# wind-energy - Thursday 24 January, 2013
# Your Say
# Your Say
Up to 30,000 jobs could be created under new plans but they could lead to hundreds of wind turbines being built in the midlands. Do you welcome the plans?
# Turbines
# Turbines
An agreement being signed today could see some of the largest wind turbines in the world erected in the Bog of Allen in the midlands.
# wind-energy - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
# Green Energy
# Green Energy
It is expected that the new expansion programme will increase the operational wind capacity of Bord Gáis by more than 50 per cent.
Morning rain, then a couple of t-showers
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Min: 12 °C
Partly sunny with a brief shower or two
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