Cork set to target energy investment

A HIGH-LEVEL group of industry and academic experts is being set up to position the Cork region as one of Europe’s leading centres for renewable energy research and investment.

It follows the County Mayor’s Conference 2011 in West Cork yesterday.

Titled Ireland’s Energy Opportunity: Cork’s Response, it was designed to showcase a new era of energy projects coming on-stream in Cork, and to highlight the opportunity for a strategic response from the region to the national energy agenda.