Solar PV remains the “most accessible and scalable of renewable energy technologies” for farmers.

The Energy and Farm Business Show heard that biomass can be used "for combined heat and power for electricity, and if it’s gasified, it can be used for biogas or biomethane."

Despite agriculture making up 37.5% of those emissions, the Taoiseach did not commit to higher sectoral emissions targets for farmers.

To reach the target, a report claims Ireland must cease coal and peat electricity production or connect large volumes of offshore wind before 2028

Given the exposure of the landscape to the elements should vast areas of Cork and Kerry, and other coastal areas, be considered a national resource to meet our future energy needs?

Solar potential

"Climate change is one factor obviously, but also security and supply now is a major factor"

Nearly 3m domestic and overseas tourists spent €833m in the Cork region in 2017.

Cllr Niall O’Callaghan, a Killarney hotelier, said "Wind turbines should be offshore."

There is a public invitation for written submissions which must be submitted by Friday, July 1

CEO of the UK's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mike Hawes, said: "This decision comes at the worst possible time."

Within a decade, nuclear power, alongside wind and solar, could undermine the global gas market, writes Nick Butler

The shortage of storage wastes energy and adds to electricity bills for households already hit hard by the cost of living crisis

The agreement "will strengthen the cooperation between the ports along the Norwegian coast and one of the hubs for floating wind in Ireland."

Deployment of battery storage is required to provide a rapid response to power changes on the national grid

As Oisín Coghlan of Friends of the Earth Ireland says, our stark choice is disruption now or destruction later on from climate change. The latter is more likely, Alison O'Connor feels

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

The National Biodiversity Conference offers the opportunity for public consultation on the next National Biodiversity Action Plan, which will be so vital to conservation in Ireland over the next five years

A Central Statistics Office survey also found that 55% of people spent more time outdoors than they did before the pandemic

With Europe moving away from Russian oil and gas, the Green Party could have seized the moment and framed renewable energy as being about cold hard cash, job creation, and economics

Developer Stacks Mountain Windfarm Limited, which has offices in Lissarda, Co Cork, asked that the challenge be entered into the fast-track Commercial Court list

Solar energy microgeneration on farms will be the first piece of work for a new agriculture forum set up by Fine Gael.

The Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot is to consider all potential responses, including ones considered too controversial to broach, that could minimize global warming damage and suffering to people and the planet

Both wind farms are to be constructed off the coast in Swedish waters.

The application said that small livestock would continue to be able to graze between and beneath the solar arrays on “undeveloped grassland”

Meanwhile, Ireland’s first large-scale solar farm was connected to the national grid this week

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

Gas for delivery through the summer was already trading 550% higher than prices of a year ago

Stephen Coppinger advises a landowner who was recently approached by a developer regarding a solar farm being put on their land.

Mr Martin insisted that the issue was not likely to damage or bring down the Government

Modern Ireland has moved on from the days of 'one man and his bog' 

Mick Clifford believes the political reaction to this week's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and calls to delay the rise in carbon tax show that leadership on the world's climate crisis is sorely lacking

Cork South Central TD, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, said: "The potential for offshore wind in Cork is enormous in terms of reducing emissions but also in terms of creating jobs."

DCU assistant professor of sustainable energy, Dr James Carton, said: "The problem is that the risk for investing in Ireland today is too high, and they prefer to go to Scotland."

With electricity demand projected to increase by between 19% and 50% by 2030, the roll out of renewables cannot come quick enough

SSE also said it doesn’t have any energy supply contracts with Russian counterparts and is “ceasing trading” activities with Russian companies

The world needs to take “radical action” to shift away from fossil fuels and ensure global warming does not pass dangerous thresholds, the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) has said.

Having endured a winter of warnings that lights could go off because of a lack of supply and now facing questions of where our import money goes, Ireland is overdue an acceleration of domestically-produced renewable energy

Russian journalist who disrupted a TV news broadcast with her hard-hitting anti-war message should be recognised for her bravery

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

'The path to our self-sufficiency is not one that will happen overnight,' says Finance Minister

'We have a target of just 5GW for 2030 when we perhaps should either be doubling that or, indeed, removing it altogether'

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 licence application relates to an 874 sq km stretch of water, running from Tuskar Rock to the Old Head of Kinsale