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Energy In Ireland
Ireland is a net energy importer. Ireland's import dependency decreased to 85% in 2014 (from 89% in 2013). The cost of all energy imports to Ireland was approximately €5.7 billion, down from €6.5 billion (revised) in 2013 due mainly to falling oil and, to a lesser extent, gas import prices. Consumption of all fuels fell in 2014 with the exception of peat, renewables and non-renewable wastes. Final consumption of electricity in 2017 was 26 TWh, a 1.1% increase on the previous year. Renewable electricity generation, consisting of wind, hydro, landfill gas, biomass and biogas, accounted for 30.1% of gross electricity consumption. In 2019, it was 31 TWh with renewables accounting for 37.6% of consumption. Energy-related emissions decreased by 2.1% in 2017 to a level 17% above 1990 levels. Energy-related emissions were 18% below 2005 levels. 60% of Irish greenhouse gas emissions are caused by energy consumption. Statistics Energy plan Ireland had a plan to reduce by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Parks And Wildlife Service (Ireland)
The National Parks and Wildlife Service () manages the Irish State's nature conservation responsibilities. As well as managing the national parks, the activities of the NPWS include the designation and protection of Natural Heritage Areas, Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas. History The Service was established as part of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government after the abolition of Dúchas in 2003. Dúchas's responsibilities had included the management of Ireland's six national parks and wildlife. In 2011 built and natural heritage came into the remit of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht as part of a reorganisation of Irish departments. It was transferred again in 2020 to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage () is a department of the Government of Ireland. It is led by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Depar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin Waste-to-Energy Facility
The Dublin Waste-to-Energy Facility, also known as the Poolbeg Incinerator, is a waste-to-energy plant serving the Greater Dublin Area, located on the Poolbeg peninsula. The plant is capable of producing up to 60 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 80,000 homes, and provide district heating for up to 50,000 homes in the Dublin area. The facility will process up to 600,000 tonnes of waste per year. Poolbeg accepted its first delivery of waste on the 24th of April 2017. The proposal to build an incinerator at this location provoked controversy since its inception in 1997 with concerns about traffic Traffic is the movement of vehicles and pedestrians along land routes. Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffic laws and informal rules that may have developed over time to facilitate the orderly an ... and emissions, but construction work finally started in 2014. Incidents On 8 June 2017, eleven people were admitted to hospital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitegate Refinery
The Whitegate refinery, near Whitegate, County Cork, is Ireland's only oil refinery. It has a capacity of 75,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), sufficient to provide 40 percent of Ireland's fuel requirements. It was commissioned in 1959 and was redeveloped several times and produces a range of petroleum products. History In the late 1950s, the Government of Ireland sought to develop industry in the country. A consortium of oil companies formed the Irish Refining Company Limited to construct and operate a refinery; the participant companies and their interests were Esso (40%), Shell-Mex & BP (40%) and Caltex (20%). The refinery was constructed on a 330-acre (133 ha) site at Whitegate, East Cork, County Cork. It was built over the period 1957 to 1959 at a cost of about £12.5 million. The refinery was commissioned in April 1959 with Esso as the operator. In 1965 the refinery was expanded to increase the capacity from 1.9 million tons per year to 2.5 million tons per year, at a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Terminals In Ireland
Oil terminals are a key component of the energy supply industry in Ireland which is extensively based on the import, production and distribution of refined petroleum products. Some crude oil is imported for processing at Ireland's only oil refinery. Background Oil terminals are key facilities for the import, export, storage, blending, transfer and distribution of oil and petroleum products. Terminals are located at coastal sites to facilitate the offloading and loading of coastal shipping. Most terminals have road tanker loading equipment for local distribution of products to industrial, commercial and domestic users. The products handled include petrol, diesel, jet kerosene, fuel oil and heating oil. List of oil terminals in Ireland The table summarises details of the location and operation of the oil terminals in Ireland. Strategic oil reserves Under the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007 the National Oil Reserves Agency (NORA) is responsible for ensuring that Irelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony O'Reilly
Sir Anthony John Francis O'Reilly (7 May 1936 – 18 May 2024) was an Irish businessman and international rugby union player. He was known for his try scoring in rugby, his involvement in the Independent News & Media Group, which he led from 1973 to 2009,Dublin, Ireland, The Irish Times, Friday 13 May (quoted aeircom.netalso), and Saturday 14 May 2009 and as CEO and chairman of the H.J. Heinz Company. He was the leading shareholder of Waterford Wedgwood and a founder and major supporter of The Ireland Funds. A citizen of both Ireland and the United Kingdom, he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor for his services to Northern Ireland. As a rugby player, he represented Ireland, the British and Irish Lions and the Barbarians and is enshrined as a member of the International Rugby Board's Hall of Fame. In business, he was noted for multiple successful roles, and became a billionaire, but by 2014, was being pursued in the Irish courts for debts amounting to €22 million by A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony O'Reilly, Junior
St. John Anthony O'Reilly, generally Tony O'Reilly, Junior (born 1966 in Dublin) is a businessman with Irish and Australian citizenship, the third son and sixth child of former Heinz Chairman & CEO and Irish media magnate Tony O'Reilly and Australian Susan Cameron. He is the former CEO of the Irish-based oil and gas exploration company Providence Resources PLC and the former chairman and CEO of Arcon, an Irish-based zinc mining company. He is currently the CEO of UK and Ireland focused geo energy transition company dCarbonX. He is married for the second time, with three children and three stepchildren and lives in Malta. Early life and career He was born, the youngest of six, and one of triplets, in 1966, in Dublin, and brought up in Ireland, at Castlemartin in County Kildare, and Fox Chapel, Pittsburgh, US. After a difficult time at Harrow School, he moved to London at the age of fifteen for 6 months, living in a bedsit flat for £25 a week, working at a supermarket an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence Resources
Providence Resources is an Irish oil and gas exploration company. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Irish Stock Exchange. Its primary activities are the exploration and development of hydrocarbons offshore Ireland and the United Kingdom. The predecessor to Providence, Atlantic Resources, was formed in 1981 by a group led by Tony O'Reilly. Tony O'Reilly, Junior was CEO of Providence from 2005 to 2019. Projects Providence drilled Ireland's first commercially-viable oil well at the Barryroe field in 2012. The exploratory well far exceeded expectations with an initial flow rate of 3,500 bpd. Barryroe is situated approximately 50 km south of the Cork coast at a 100m water depth and an independent audit in April 2013 estimated that Barryroe holds in excess of 1.6 billion barrels of oil, of which 346 million barrels equivalent is recoverable. , company is still appraising the field and is seeking farmout partners to begin development. In 2015, Providenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESB Group
The Electricity Supply Board (ESB; ) is a state owned (95%; the rest are owned by employees) electricity company based in Ireland with operations worldwide. While historically a monopoly, the ESB now operates as a commercial semi-state concern in a "liberalised" and competitive market. It is a statutory corporation whose members are appointed by the Government of Ireland. Business areas The ESB is composed of several distinct, separate and legally demarcated companies. By business area, the principal companies are: ''ESB Networks Limited'' manages construction and maintenance of the electricity transmission system. (The transmission system operator is an independent state company, EirGrid). ''ESB Generation and Wholesale Markets (ESB GWM)'' operates a portfolio of power stations across the country, along with holdings in wind and other renewables. '' Electric Ireland'' is a regulated supply company, one of fourteen companies (as of 10 October 2021) operating in the domesti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moneypoint Power Station
Moneypoint power station () is Ireland's largest electricity generation station (with an output 915 MW) and its only coal-fired power station. Commissioned between 1985 and 1987, it is located on the River Shannon, near Kilrush in County Clare, and was constructed at a cost of more than £700m. The station operates largely on coal, making it both unique in the context of Irish electricity production and for a while was the country's single largest emitter of greenhouse gases. At its peak, it was capable of meeting around 25% of customer demand across the country. But by 2023, coal's share of the electricity fuel mix in Ireland had fallen to 4%. In 2021, its owner, the ESB Group, announced the facility would be closed and replaced with a green-energy hub. It has two Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) storage tanks with a capacity of 50,000 tonnes which can be used as a back-up fuel if required. Three Brown Boveri four-cylinder, single-shaft impulse reaction turbines are directly connected to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For The Environment, Climate And Communications
The Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment () is a senior minister (government), minister in the Government of Ireland and leads the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment. The Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment is Darragh O'Brien, Teachta Dála, TD. He is also the Minister for Transport (Ireland), Minister for Transport. He is assisted by two Minister of State (Ireland), Ministers of State: *Alan Dillon, TD – Minister of State at the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment, Minister of State for the circular economy. *Timmy Dooley, TD – Minister of State for the marine List of office-holders ;Notes See also *Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (responsible for the Environment until 2016) *Irish Land Commission References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Environment, Climate and Communications Government ministers of the Republic of Ireland Lists of government ministers of Ireland Communications in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
