“Offshore wind, offshore wind, offshore wind. Honestly, let’s be very clear, we are squandering this opportunity right now”
CoolPlanet is in expansion mode again after the pandemic froze its core business helping corporate customers cut their energy use and carbon emissions. It now outsources the roll-out of those projects and focuses on the analytics software driving them - including to control new electric trucks specialised in mining, its founder and chairman Norman Crowley tells Thomas Hubert. He sees a decade of growth ahead in the need for decarbonising the economy and warns that Ireland is missing the offshore wind opportunity while protecting a type of livestock farming that has no future.
