'Covid-style' response to energy crisis needed, says Cork entrepreneur Pearse Flynn

Pearse Flynn, Founder, EIH2, at City Hall, Cork. Picture: David Keane.

Green energy entrepreneur Pearse Flynn has urged the State to adopt a Covid-style emergency response to providing large-scale renewable energy infrastructure here.

Mr Flynn, whose company EI-H2 has partnered with the Irish arm of Texan-headquartered energy firm Zenith Energy to explore plans for a massive green hydrogen and green ammonia facility on Whiddy Island in West Cork, said fast delivery of off-shore wind-farms and on-shore energy plants is vital, if Ireland is to capitalise on what he said could be a massive opportunity for the country.