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IERC project Audit Plus offers a free of charge energy efficiency consulting service for energy intensive industries
Friday 9th August 2024 Audit Plus has opened a call for energy-intensive industries in which it offers a free of charge comprehensive consulting service that will guide selected companies in the identification and implementation of energy efficiency measures.
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Listen Back to Professor Brian Norton on Newstalk
Wednesday 20th March 2024 Professor Brian Norton spoke to Jonathan McCrea on Newstalk about novel daylight enhancing techniques, which can be used even when skies are cloudy and overcast, to improve health and wellness.
Job Opportunities
PhD Studentship: Development of Next-generation grid-ready smart inverter for super home
Wednesday 10th January 2024 The Intelligent Grid (iG) Research team at International Energy Research Centre (IERC), Tyndall National Institute, University College, Cork, invites applications for a PhD Studentship in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The successful candidate will contribute to developing a next-generation grid-ready inverter to address the smooth integration and control of Super Home DERs and Appliances (Heat Pump, Electric Vehicle, etc) in the Irish Low Voltage Distribution Network (LVDN).
The closing date for applications is 19th January 2024.
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Hydrogen in the Irish Energy Transition | Opportunities and Challenges
Friday 8th December 2023 Hydrogen in the Irish Energy Transition, as part of DECCs Energy Policy Insights for Climate Action (EPICA) project, evaluating the potential roles that green hydrogen can play in supporting Ireland’s journey to net zero.
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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.