Cork tipped to lead transport energy revolution

Cork is poised to lead a transport energy revolution, one of the country’s leading energy bosses has predicted.

Neil O’Carroll, the lead executive with oil giant Phillips 66 in Ireland, was speaking at an Energy Cork breakfast briefing yesterday where executives from ESB and Bord Gáis Networks unveiled plans to revolutionise low emission transport in Ireland.

The ESB confirmed it will install 30 electric car power points across the county — increasing the numbers from 56 to 86 — with 15 new charge points in the city.