The bulk of the dividend last year came from the ESB at €121.6m

Valentia Island is one of 15 regions selected for European hydrogen project

Policymakers seem unsure which way to turn, given the plan to hike the cost of public electric vehicle charging 

The Children's Minister has said “nefarious groups” are taking advantage of the valid concerns people have in relation to Ukrainians and other people seeking asylum here.

One tourist who was dining on Maylor Street said the lights suddenly went out in their restaurant. 

The Department of Public Expenditure disagreed with the Green Party leader, warning that the plan would in effect be asking the Exchequer – and Irish taxpayers – to take on a greater share of the cost of decarbonisation

125,000 households are now behind on their bills as Government struggles to get funds to pay-as-you-go customers 

The Oireachtas committee on environment and climate action heard about 125,000 Electric Ireland customers have fallen behind with their energy bills

The current energy crisis requires the political will that delivered the Ardnacrusha hydroelectric scheme almost a century ago 

Call it what you like, privatisation is wrong  — morally and economically — and we should always have resisted it

Micheál Martin says Government will use its dividend from ESB to reduce pressure on households and protect jobs

Ireland had the first publicly owned energy system, in the 1920s. We need to return it to democratic public ownership

Vouchers to the customer or donations to local schools and charities could be part of a scheme encouraging individual users to cut energy usage

It was claimed Mr Noonan's alleged repeated exposure to asbestos fibres during the course of his employment with the ESB lead to his developing cancer

Three primary school children win a national award for their planet-friendly concept car   

The Minister for the Environment has told the Dáil he has not ruled out a windfall tax on energy companies.

Limerick scientist says a major kill of eels occurred on the lower Shannon due to a lack of mitigation measures during Storm Barra

The war in Ukraine has shown the double standards of western powers, as they ignore the suffering of refugees if they come from an Arab, Asian, African, or South American nation

The semi-state body had already racked up more than €17m in fines — and now it has to dismantle the windfarm it built

We must now harness the power of offshore wind farms if we are to wean ourselves off our reliance on at-risk supplies of foreign energy sources.

The Fianna Fáil TD for Offaly said the State has often been "a pointless owner of assets, and a terrible shareholder".

Barry Cowen accused the ESB of using the Republic’s shortage of generating capacity and its dominant position in the market to “increase tenfold the wholesale price of power”

Utility is expected to pitch itself as a supplier of clean energy to business customers                 

"The more we produce our own renewable energy, the more protected Irish consumers are from very high prices for imported fossil fuels,” says Wind Energy Ireland CEO Noel Cunniffe.

FuturEnergy Ireland will build wind farm developments on Coillte-owned land

ESB has acknowledged more work has to be done on accessibility

Mick Clifford wonders if one of the ostensibly more straightforward and uncontentious elements of the climate action plan can be scuppered by a lack of resources, what hope for the rest?

The ESB had been in a partnership to develop a €2bn wind farm off the coast of Clare — but Norway's Equinor has pulled out of the deal due to dissatisfaction with Ireland's regulatory and planning regime

The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting was dominated by the issues of agriculture and the climate agenda

Meanwhile, the ESB is examining whether the decommissioned gas field could be used to store green hydrogen

The move is in addition to similar projects already announced for Cork and Dublin.

The defence barrister told the court: “There is a large amount of compensation to be paid back to the ESB."

Perhaps a major expansion of offshore wind energy will take place, saving the country from blackouts, and satisfying data centres' ravenous hunger for electricity.  But it's one hell of a gamble

The lack of approved forestry licences resulted in supply shortages and a consequent decline in sales

Marathon litigation began after 2009 floods caused extensive damage to buildings on university campus

Rivers have already burst their banks in many areas and heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours means more issues could be on the horizon, authorities have warned.

Deciding on what is an acceptable use of natural resources, especially land, is always political. Decisions are driven by deep cultural beliefs.

Companies agreed on a partnership in 2019 to focus on the construction of windfarms on Coillte-owned land around the country

Christian Aid has formally lodged complaints with the OECD regarding the running of the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia, from which the ESB has sourced fuel.

UCC had no emergency plan in place to minimise fluvial flood damage and appeared to have a 'childlike' dependency on others, said counsel for ESB

ESB has announced a €75m fund for large businesses to reduce their energy consumption. The utility will provide the up-front capital for these energy-saving infrastructural projects with repayments financed by the resultant delivered savings.

Transport minister warns of need for multi-billion euro funding to cope with challenge

The ESB made no financial provision for claims arising out of the 2009 Cork flood because it didn’t think that University College Cork’s (UCC) appeal to the Supreme Court would be successful.

This has gone on long enough - it’s time now for the ESB to offer those affected by the 2009 flood a full and fair settlement.