The fluids traditionally used in heating and cooling are notoriously energy-inefficient, yet there had been no progress for decades in this area. With an easy-to-use product, HT Materials has caught the eye of high-profile global investors.
There is more to Sinn Féin’s climate policy than its opposition to the carbon tax or its non-commital stance on the emission cuts needed in agriculture, an in-depth discussion with Lynn Boylan and Darren O’Rourke reveals.
The most divisive debate at the recent Wind Energy Conference focused on an apparently technocratic point of EU law, which ended up sparking a classical clash between advocates of the free market and state intervention. The electricity bills of 450 million Europeans are at stake.
The former owners of Beauparc are back in the waste and energy business after acquiring the Huntstown biogas project. Developed to generate gas from brown bins, the plant is not yet in commercial operation.
After years of delays, a court dispute and a large write-off, Energia has found a willing buyer for its problem-riddled Dublin biogas plant. Waste treatment entrepreneur Eamon Waters is familiar with the project.
By focusing on the heavy equipment niche, the Claregalway battery technology start-up has convinced investors to back its plans for a fully-fledged factory. The sums at stake had remained secret – until now.
Recent days have seen major components of inflation – energy, grain and freight prices – fall back to the levels seen before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yet market observers offer no guarantees that this will last.
Ronan Doherty was among the founders of ElectroRoute, the energy trading company fully acquired by Mitsubishi last year. He explains where his business sits in the increasingly interconnected electricity grid required to power Europe without fossil fuels.
GridBeyond’s CEO Michael Phelan discusses how the crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine has altered the way businesses procure electricity and weigh up solar and batteries investments – and questions the future of gas in the energy transition.
Finance and contractors are in place for the major infrastructure project destined to replace peak gas-fired generation with overseas renewable or nuclear electricity. Thomas Hubert reports from Paris.
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