IN HIS dying days as Taoiseach Brian Cowen raised the prospect of 7,0000 new green-based jobs sprouting up in the IFSC within five years.

Naval defence technology company DCNS has bought an 8% stake in Irish tidal renewable energy company OpenHydro for €14m.

BORD Gáis Energy (BGE) is to invest up to €2 million in the Irish tidal renewable energy company, OpenHydro, to develop a largescale tidal farm off the coast.

THE investment holding company One51 led by businessman Philip Lynch has cut its level of borrowing and carried out two acquisitions.

Irish tidal renewable energy company OpenHydro has been awarded a grant of up to €2m under Sustainable Energy Ireland’s (SEI) Ocean Energy Prototype Research & Development Programme.

An Irish tidal-energy company has secured a major contract in the United States.

OpenHydro Group Ltd an Irish energy technology company whose business is the design and manufacture of marine turbines for generating renewable energy from tidal currents, has announced the signing of a major agreement with Alderney Renewable Energy Ltd for the supply of tidal turbines.

Green Party leader Trevor Sargent TD today accused the Taoiseach of putting the interests of the French nuclear industry ahead of Irish business and consumers.

A DUBLIN company has won a key element of an €8 million development to provide tidal powered electricity to a Canadian power company.