Ocean data collection company, XOCEAN, has announced 60 new jobs.

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.

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.

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.

The mood of the wind gods had changed for the penultimate day of Ford Cork Week when they decided to give the exhausted sailors a little more wind.