Limerick City and County Council is part of a new pan-European project, +CityxChange (Positive City ExChange), a smart city project, that has been granted funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme in the call for ‘Smart
Global Summit and Expo on Power & Energy Engineering Dubai, UAE February 18-20, 2019 Theme: The Digital Power Future is Now
Dudley Stewart (Chartered Power Engineer): - having directed Alternative Energy Development in the Energy-crisis in Bangladesh (mid-70’s), Dudley founded in Ireland the R&I Group in wind generator blade, governing and inverter systems. In the Mid-80’s he implemented senior energy design
SEAI Awards 2018 Winner – Research Smart M Power Co (t/a MPOWER)
October 18th, 2018 Project Information MEGA, in collaboration with South Dublin County Council and industry partners such as MPOWER, developed a Living Lab to research solutions that increase the level of electricity production hosted by communities. It is located in South Dublin
Limerick secures €6.5M in EU funding to become a smart positive energy city
Staff Reporter - July 10, 2018 Limerick has been awarded a substantial grant in the biggest EU Research and Innovation Funding programme, Horizon 2020, for a smart cities and communities project worth €6.5m to the city, of which MPower is a substantial part. Limerick
Ecoult takes Australian UltraBattery® technology into the European grid of the future
Media Release Sydney, NSW, Australia For immediate release Klaus Harder, Business Development Manager at FREQCON GmbH Sydney based company Ecoult is taking its energy storage products, powered by the UltraBattery, into Europe with an installation this month in Dublin to integrate fast-response storage
PowerMatching City 2015 – Hoogkerk
Power-Matching City is the leading Dutch smart grid project. Started in 2007 as part of the EU-funded INTEGRAL program, the project developed, built and demonstrated an integrated smart grid solution in Hoogkerk (near the city of Groningen). In this first
Power to the People – is community energy the way forward?
The Government wants us to become ‘energy citizens’, but advocates of local energy schemes say Ireland is lagging behind other EU countries Sat, Jan 30, 2016, 03:00 Sylvia Thompson Last month, as world leaders met in Paris at COP21, the United Nations climate-change
Community Power – We are our Renewable Future
Community Power – We are our Renewable Future Communities call on Government to Support Community Owned Renewable Energy 100 community groups and co-operatives launch a Proclamation for Community Energy. For the first time in Ireland this 'Proclamation for Community Energy' recognizes communities as
Ireland’s First Combined Ultracapacitor & Battery Energy Storage Facility
By Roy L Hales Ireland intends to achieve 40% renewable energy by 2020. This is an ambitious goal, considering most of this electricity comes from large scale wind farms. “The challenge is that it is an island grid, with only limited
FREQCON Energy Storage System Deployed in Ireland’s DS3 Smart Grid Testbed
Walsrode - FREQCON GmbH, a German developer and distributor of renewable energy converter and storage systems, has deployed an energy storage system for the Tallaght Smart Grid Testbed near Dublin, Ireland. The energy storage system, especially designed for the Irish