Irish energy firm Mainstream Renewable Power is set to begin construction work on €3.1bn worth of wind and solar projects across four continents this year.

A consortium headed by Irish-founded energy firm Mainstream Renewable Power has been awarded three significant wind energy projects in South Africa, which will see a combined €660m invested in the country.

Bord na Móna has unveiled a €1bn energy export plan to turn bogs across Offaly and Kildare into windfarms.

Irish-based Mainstream Renewable Power has announced it is to partner in a $1.4bn (€1bn) renewable energy project in Chile which will be operational by 2016.

Securing an intergovernmental agreement between the UK and Ireland to facilitate the export of Irish wind energy is crucial to the future of the multi-billion euro midlands wind project.

Plans to construct more than 2,000 wind turbines in the Midlands have already angered locals and will divide farmers. People are mobilising and getting ready to stand up to the plans, writes Michael Clifford

Power grid operators signed a deal yesterday to investigate the feasibility of a 5,000 megawatt electricity transportation system which could export wind power from Ireland to the UK within five years.

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TWO Irish alternative energy companies are to be involved in developing half of the energy capacity in the latest round of a £100 billion (€111bn) wind farm project in Britain, tipped to be the world’s largest energy infrastructure programme.

EDDIE O’Connor’s latest wind farm operator Mainstream Renewable Power has signed a e509 million deal to co-develop 400 megawatts of power in Canada over the next four years.

The Irish businessman who founded the billion-euro wind energy firm Airtricity is now eyeing the global renewable energy market.

The story of a GAA star's battle against his gambling addiction was today announced as a contender for a major book award.

THE family of a Dublin woman, whose autobiography is a best-seller in Ireland and Britain, yesterday publicly disputed allegations in the book that the author was beaten and abused by her father.