The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith, recently confirmed that the €8 million Rainwater Harvesting Schemes will open for applications on Tuesday 1 March 2011. Applications to the scheme will be available on the government website  www.agriculture.gov.ie from that date. The €8 million Rainwater Harvesting Scheme will  provide grant-aid at a standard grant-rate

Review of 2010 Local Auhority Social Housing Upgrades. Lessons learnt and how to action for 2011 scheme. by calling 052 7443090 or email info@tea.ie . All registration must be confirmed by the Tuesday 01st March 2011.

The TEA is attending the kick off meetings of three new EU Projects which will support the development of bioenergy in the South East Region of Ireland.  Supported under the EU BioEnArea project (www.bioenarea.eu) and will focus on a number of themes – Regional Biomass Business Development will support enterprises and producers groups in the

Tipperary Institute is in the process of installing a wood chip heating system at its Thurles Campus.  See Seamus Hoyne of Tipperary Institute and TEA presenting on this as part of TI Green Week.  Live Streaming of presentation available at http://www.tippinst.ie/events/green_week.html

TEA recently attended the Energy Action conference on 7th and 8th February 2011. Many presenters tackled the sensitive issue of fuel poverty from various perspectives. Outgoing Minister Eamon Ryan and ex-Minister for the Environment Dick Roche spoke at the conference. Duncan Stewart neatly defined the whole house approach to retrofit and Dr Brenda Boardman reviewed

A heavily subsidised training course, for trades people which will help raise their understanding of energy efficiency in buildings, is to start soon in Cork and Dublin. For actual course content click here.  For course detail and schedule click here. If you are interested follow the details in the course detail and schedule and contact CIT or ITB immediately

The HSA has issued  an urgent alert to operators, maintenance personnel and members of the public on the dangers associated with bulk feed hoppers/tanks normally used with Wood Pellet Boilers. For more information

19 drivers were presented with Eco Driving certificates yesterday, 20/01/11, as a result of a 12 month project to sustainably save CO2 emissions and Fuel. All drivers got a 1-1 eco drive lesson and the TEA carried out monitoring of fuel consumption for 12 months….. A sustained saving of 3.1% has been recorded for the