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Full coverage: Energy

Dublin’s Unitherm Heating Systems acquired by Apollo-owned Finnish firm

The Irish company has been in business for 20 years and has annual revenues of around €30m. It is now joining Finland’s Purmo Group.

Jonathan Keane
2nd Oct, 2024 - 2 min read

Thirty years and still facing its “biggest opportunity”: Inside DCC’s constant evolution

Founded by the legendary Jim Flavin, DCC now has revenues of €24bn and a 16,000-strong headcount. Expertly managed and consistently delivering, why doesn’t the market love it more?

Tom Lyons
23rd Sep, 2024 - 20 min read

Older, smaller, but still in demand: Why Greencoat Renewables is selling five Irish wind farms

For the first time, the Dublin- and London-listed green energy investor is acting on its promise to recycle capital. But what exactly is it putting up for sale?

Thomas Hubert
6th Sep, 2024 - 2 min read

China, Opec, Trump: The downside risks pointing to a big drop in world oil prices

The short- to medium-term outlook for the oil market is beginning to change. To make a long story short, get set for large declines.

Peter Kinsella
23rd Aug, 2024 - 5 min read

Licovolt wants to change EV battery recycling: “We’re looking to work with a strategic partner”

Batteries play an ever-increasing role in all aspects of our lives but finding an efficient and profitable way of recycling them is elusive. Now a new start-up with strong Irish links believes it has found the answer.

Tom Lyons
19th Aug, 2024 - 6 min read

Risky business: Are “supernormal” profits a just reward for long-term fossil fuel investment?

In 2022 Vermilion, the firm behind the Corrib gas field, was gearing up for dividends and share buy-backs. Then the government moved to levy windfall gains in the energy sector as prices rocketed.

Francesca Comyn
29th Jul, 2024 - 10 min read

After breaking a fusion world record, Realta Fusion is at “an inflection point”

Wexford-born Kieran Furlong co-founded and leads one of the world's most exciting fusion energy start-ups. It just had a big breakthrough in a field he feels will be of great importance to AI, data centres and Ireland.

Tom Lyons
26th Jul, 2024 - 6 min read

“A single, unexpected event”: How expansion into Sweden has rocked Cork’s Mainline Power

Electrical engineering services firm Mainline Power has blue-chip clients and dozens of employees in booming areas. However, it has sought the appointment of an examiner after a Scandinavian deal went sour. What went wrong?

Ian Kehoe
19th Jun, 2024 - 8 min read

Waste not, want not — Part 1: Eamon Waters builds up a new recycling empire

In the first of a three-part investigation, company, planning and legal files show how the waste tycoon is reinvesting funds from the sale of Beauparc into a string of new waste and energy ventures.

N. Sargent and T. Hubert
27th May, 2024 - 13 min read

Echelon’s Molloy on the next wave of data centres and jobs, and how to get them

Echelon Data Centres founder Niall Molloy says global tech giants are making decisions now on the location of the computing power needed for the AI revolution – it is a big opportunity if Ireland can overcome "extreme zealotry" in policymaking.

Tom Lyons
16th May, 2024 - 7 min read
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