The Tipperary Green Business Network will hold a morning LAUNCH and NETWORKING event on Wednesday, February 1st at LIT Tipperary, Thurles Campus at 9.00am. Companies in Co. Tipperary involved in the green sector, and who want to network with similar organisations, are encouraged to attend the launch event. The Green Business Network is being established
Tipperary Energy Agency as part of the www.rbbd.eu and www.Bioenarea.eu project are facilitating and international best practice exchange visit to Estonia in April 2012. The target group are for Boiler installers of Biomass > 50kW. Please contact pphelan@tea.ie if you have an interest in participating in the exchange. See link to town in Estonia with
This years Energy Neighbourhoods competition will involve a number of Tidy Towns in Ireland and these include Killoscully, Dundrum, Birdhill and Emly. The latter two have won Tidy Towns before and Emly performed well in the initial Energy Neighbourhoods competition in 2008/2009. One Energy Master joked today that there was no turkey to be cooked
Emly became the tidiest village in Ireland last year and repeated its achievement this year. It was also the most livable community in the world and won this title at a ceremony in Chicago. Tipperary Energy Agency is delighted to announce that Emly has just signed up to Energy Neighbourhoods along with other Tidy Towns
The Train Energy project completed recently completed trained over 500 tradespersons from accross Europe, over 50 in Ireland. There were several interesting conclusions including how best to recruit tradespersons and also how to overcome traditional classroom training barriers with tradespersons. The full report on what was done and lessons learned is available here. All the
The installation of the new 550kW Biomass Boiler from Gilles is currently underway at Thurles Leisure Centre. The project is set to cut the heating costs within the facility from €150,000 per annum currently on LPG bulk to under €100,000 per annum on biomass locally sourced. This will have the impact of retaining this money
The Tipperary Energy Agency are partners in the BISYPLAN project, which aims to produce a handbook for planners and decision makers in relation to bio energy projects. For more information see the BISYPLAN Poster Now calling for input Case Studies on financing of Bioenergy Projects of any size. For further information please contact mbell@tea.ie or shoyne@tea.ie
All businesses need to cut their costs at present. (See how much you can save below) Oil Prices are rising. Tax on fossil fuels is high. You can make huge savings by switching to wood heat see more details here: Wood for heat info sheet 2011/12 Wood heat is the best value option at present: 1.
