Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
An ESB-led wave energy project based in Co Clare has been awarded €23 million by the European Commission.
The WestWave Project is the only Irish proposal to receive funding under the Commission’s NER 300 programme, which uses revenue from 300 million emission allowances sold in the EU Emissions Trading System to allocate its funding.
WestWave is led by the ESB and involves a consortium of tech and wave energy developers. The ESB said today that it aims to start generating wave energy in 2018, with WestWave initially generating electricity equivalent to the amount consumed by homes in the Clare towns of Kilrush and Kilkee.
A site for the project is being developed at Killard near Doonbeg, with construction expected to start in 2016.
ESB Head of Innovation John McSweeney described today’s funding announcement as a “huge boost” to both the project and to ocean energy development in Ireland and Europe:
Ireland’s oceans have the potential to provide large quantities of indigenous, renewable energy and reduce our dependence on imported fossil fuels. Demonstration projects like ESB WestWave are critical if we are to realise the ultimate aim of progressing to larger commercial scale projects and a low carbon future.
Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte also welcomed the funding for Ireland’s ocean energy development, adding that it is “critical that the sector moves ahead with device deployment”.
“Ireland’s position at the Atlantic edge of the EU provides us with an almost unparalleled ocean energy resource,” the minister said.
“As identified in the Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan, which I published earlier this year, the ocean energy sector holds real potential for growth in the green economy and jobs in our coastal communities, both here in Ireland and along the western seaboard of the EU.”
The Irish project is one of 19 awarded funding by the Commission today.
Speaking about today’s funding awards, EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said that these projects “will help protect the climate and make Europe less energy dependent”.
“The €1bn we are awarding today will leverage some additional €900m of private investment. So that is almost €2bn of investment in climate-friendly technologies here in Europe,” Hedegaard said in a statement. “This is a contribution to reducing Europe’s energy bill of more than €1bn per day that we pay for our imported fossil fuels.”
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Even though he tried to chat up what he thought was a 16 year old girl, “Judge” Nolan still gives him a suspended sentence? Beggars belief
@COYBIG: see I agree with you and dont get me wrong these people are sick and should get longer sentences but you cant blame the Judge because he is just going by the law and the law should be changed !
@Jim Gold: Judge Nolan is known to give very lenient sentences to paedophiles … why is he allowed to continue to preside over these cases??
@COYBIG: Nolan again????????
Nobody allowed to critise a certain judge any more??
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: Judge Nolan is half the problem with crime in this country.
@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: I said he was a joke and my comment was deleted!
In 1994, the Sunday Sport newspaper published a series of pictures of then 15-year-old Linsey Dawn McKenzie as part of their day-by-day countdown to her 16th birthday, on which occasion they published her topless debut.
@Zozzy Zozimus: yes??
@Hans Vos: yes what?
I dont get it, were the sharing pictures of kids to each other or just sharing their own sik fantasies
If these gents were to be hung from a lamppost at high noon tomorrow the outcry from the liberal left and civil liberties groups would be vociferous
@Damien Mooney: yawn. Not only “liberals” and “lefties” oppose public lynchings.
@DJ François: yeah, I’m a positive rascal and I want no part of that. Unless they physically harm a child, then we can talk business
Wait, did the second guy know that the first was a man posing as a girl or did he actually think he was contacting an underage girl?? I don’t see the harm in a guy posing as a girl for some fantasy but a guy trying to chat up what he thought was a young girl is worrying
@Raymond Burke: they were both in on it from my reading. It’s effectively a thought crime.
Very hard to spot the crime here. No images of children and no actual children were involved. Having said that I wouldn’t be calling either of them up to babysit on Saturday evening.
@Anthony Horan: Crime-fiction writers would want to tread carefully around these parts….
Presumably by the same token, the author of the book Lolita would be getting a visit from the cops were he to publish it today….. Ireland1984?
Rough childhood,bullied,blah blah!
When is this going to stop?
Judges being lenient on sexual deviants because of their “remorse”.
https://tag.com/ heres tag.com I reckon this is all fake news.
@Kenneth Finnerty: I think they mean tagged, not tag
@J M Raw: no, that’s how the gardai found a conversation between the 2. Sounds like they were publishing it online (?) or on a forum at least.
They are psychologically sick individuals who should be sentenced to a year of therapy to cure their illness’s not suspend the problem for 12 months as Nolan’s has issued.
what a pile of shit
have your say