News and Events
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Improving Energy Efficiency in Energy Intensive Industries. Call for stakeholders interested in the Irish market.
Monday 20th November 2023 LIFE-AUDIT-PLUS wishes to get in contact with associations, policymakers, technologists, private companies, energy intensive industries, public authorities, agencies, research entities, normalisation bodies, to discuss with them how energy auditing processes are currently organised in energy intensive industries, opportunities to innovate the current best practices, ideas for new standards and financial schemes, which can increase the investments in energy efficiency measures identified in energy audit process, and the efforts spent in their implementation.
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EU Projects Zone Podcast: SmartSPIN
Friday 13th October 2023 IERC colleagues Luciano di Tommasi and Ruchi Agrawal join Areti Ntaradimou on the EU Projects Zone Podcast to talk about SmartSPIN and how this project will deliver a new business model for the energy sector.
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RE-energising Europe – 24 & 25 October 2023
Monday 31st July 2023 Taking place in Brussels (Atelier 29) on 24-25 October, the event is bringing together speakers from EU institutions, project representatives and key players of the energy market.
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Barriers and challenges to the deployment of Smart Energy Services in Europe
Wednesday 5th July 2023 On April 25th the EU Horizon 2020 funded project SmartSPIN, led by IERC, participated in an online clustering event with other EU Projects where different perspectives on Smart Energy Services in Europe were presented.
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Institute of Refrigeration Ireland National Conference 2023
Friday 24th March 2023 IERC's Professor Brian Norton will be opening the IRI Institute of Refrigeration Ireland National Conference 2023.
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SEAI Energy Show 2023
Friday 10th March 2023 IERC are attending the SEAI energy show 2023 as part of project SmartSPIN.
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Using Energy Performance Contracting to Address The Split Incentive Issue in SME
Friday 3rd February 2023 The EU Horizon 2020 funded, SmartSPIN project, led by IERC is developing, piloting and evaluating a new business model, based on the ‘Energy Efficiency-as-a-Service’ concept, to overcome the well-known split incentive issue.
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Intensify Project Final Conference takes place in Cork
Friday 9th December 2022 The IERC attended the final Intensify conference to showcase the work being done in the UP-STAIRS EU H2020 programme.
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Is Energy Storage with Artificial Intelligence the future of increasing renewable energy from Solar farms?
Wednesday 3rd August 2022 The IERC is exploring ways to reduce the amount of time that renewable energy plants have to stop producing energy, due to curtailments or constraints.
Researchers will examine the full potential of PV plant and battery energy storage systems working side by side.
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IERC Hosts EnerConf
Wednesday 13th July 2022 The IERC were delighted to bring people from far and wide to Tyndall National Institute to participate in a conference on The Future of Community Energy in Ireland.
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New Energy Advice Kiosk Opens on Grand Parade in Cork to Support Energy Communities
Thursday 30th June 2022 Looking for some advice on how to work with your neighbours, or with your community, to save or even generate energy at home and carbon emissions? Cork City Council’s new Home Energy Upgrade Office kiosk on Grand Parade in Cork, provides just such a service.
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Blurring the Lyons between Industry and Research
Tuesday 28th June 2022 Dr. Pádraig Lyons is the Head of Group in the International Energy Research Centre (IERC) at Tyndall National Institute.
Pádraig has had a varied career and he shares with us his background and progression to his current position.