The Energy Neighbourhoods energy saving campaign results are in and Emly Tidy Towns are on their way to Brussels saving a masive 37%, while  Birdhill follow with a saving of 31%. Cloughjordan Tidy towns and their eco-villagers also saved energy during our campaign saving 19% and 10% respectively. More results will be posted in the

Last night at the annual Green Awards in the Burlington Hotel our CEO Paul Kenny picked up the Green Leader Award 2013. The awards pay tribute to all of the companies and people whose achievements have delivered exceptional environmental performance in 2012. Paul was acknowledged as a champion of new technologies and renewables. His work in

The repeated discussions in the Media in Ireland surrounding wind energy impact to local communities, with noise/ shadow flicker and economic benefits/costs being the two main themes. When we talk about Noise and shadow flicker, it’s a project specific fact based studies, where topography of the land, turbine size and local factors like planting make

The next Ace partners meeting is taking place this week 8th-10th April 2013. The meeting will kick off in Dublin with a half-day workshop hosted by Codema.  The workshop will be based on ICT Capabilities for energy-smart cities, villages and regions and will be held in the DDDA building on Custom House Quay. Co Tipperary 

The TEA was officially appointed as the technical expertise to the Mid West Regional Authority for the STEP project. Improvement of sustainable energy policy tools in local governments (STEP) is an INTERREG IVC project under priority 2: Environment and Risk Prevention/Energy and Sustainable Transport. It was elected in 2011 during the INTERREG IVC 4th call

332.000 Euro for cars! According to an analysis of the «Verlag Motor Presse Stuttgart«, this is the amount spent by the average German during his/her 54 years of «automobile life». This includes buying 3 new and 5 used cars, insurances, taxes, parking, maintenance, tires and oil change. By the way: you can have a «lifetime flat rate»

The Irish Wind Energy Association has developed a local community involvement model document that is a good start. It is available here. It essentially suggests a figure of €1000 per MW per year installed or less than 0.5% of the gross income. (Using Eirgrid’s 2012  28.8% CF and €75/MWh). This is a paltry figure, and

Jack writes: “My dad’s gone crazy these days since he joined the Energy Neighbourhoods project, thinking off new ways to save energy and money. Some days I don’t know what’s going through his head. Perhaps he’s already thinking of another energy saving plan. Like his last wonderful plan by putting an egg timer in the