Full coverage: Renewable energy

The Dublin start-up has been growing sales of energy-saving lights and solar panels as a service to business customers. Its co-founder Kevin Maughan says this model is on the cusp of becoming a mainstream product.

Ten business leaders at the forefront of the transformation to a low-carbon future share their hopes and fears as Ireland gets to grips with global climate change.

The publication of the Climate Action Plan and the mixed reaction to COP26 at the end of last year set the scene for an acceleration of climate policy. This two-part series explores the joined-up approach required to harness the power of business in this effort.

The latest Climate Action Plan falls short of the Government's own targets, showing that ministers continue to dither on making hard decisions. By default, a growing share of steeper efforts will fall on electricity generation – and there, at least, some action is happening.

The French energy giant EDF made a remarked Irish entrance when it bought into the country’s largest planned wind farm a year and a half ago. The Currency can now reveal how much it paid Johnny and Conor Ronan and Richard Barrett in the deal – and how much it has yet to pay them.

ReVolve Renewable Power has raised millions from Irish investors keen to back its wind and solar ambitions in Mexico and the US. Now, through a reverse takeover, it is listing on the Toronto Venture Exchange. CEO Steve Dalton talks funding, energy and strategy.

In just three years, the Norwegian state-owned electricity group has become the fastest-growing green power company in Ireland. This is the story of its expansion in Ireland - what it owns, its financial strategy, and what is coming next.

The long-awaited selection of the first grid-scale solar energy projects ever eligible to state support in Ireland just one year ago opened the capital floodgates. Norwegian, British and French investors have been piling in.

Sometimes wind turbines and solar panels produce excess electricity – sometimes not enough. An Irish company is going to the market to store it underground in gas form and release it when peak demand hits.

An informal suggestion from a leading stockbroker to a minister made it into a formal disclosure: If tax-transparent investment structures were so successful to channel capital into property, why not roll them out to green energy? There is more to it than meets the eye.