Todays’s keynote at #GLLLW2024 that Anne Burke delivered was one of the most moving addresses I have ever witnessed. When Anne finished her speech, the whole of WGB G05 got to their feet in standing ovation & there wasn’t a dry eye in the room. We still have so much more to do…

Great to see William Walsh SEAI CEO refer to the top 5 actions for Ireland proposed by UCC Ireland Prof. Hannah Daly has shown can deliver 90% of the energy related emissions savings required to meet our targets.

Great to see CRU Commissioner Aoife MacEvilly call out Ireland as an outlier in terms of demand growth Energy Ireland conference

It is at odds with our legally binding carbon budgets and our legally binding commitments under the EU Energy Efficiency Directive.

Minister Deirdre Hargey calls for an end to the ‘injustice of energy poverty’ Energy Ireland conference and emphasises the need for more All-Island collaboration on meeting the decarbonisation targets.

Minister Eamon Ryan announces new small scale renewable energy scheme Energy Ireland conference.

This will provide a feed in tariff scheme for solar energy projects up to 6MW in size.

Congratulations to Prof. Brian O Gallachoir, Director of MaREI & UCC Associate Vice-President of Sustainability on winning the inaugural The Irish Times Positive Impacts award in association with EirGrid

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I’m honoured and humbled to receive the #ITPositiveImpacts Award.

Massive thanks to The Irish Times and EirGrid Plc for selecting me.

I’m so privileged to work with an amazing team of 600 sustainability researchers UCC Ireland and to be so strongly supported but UCC Ireland’s leadership team

Listening to mental health podcasts reduces stigma

Mental health podcasts help listeners to learn coping strategies, deepen their self-compassion and increase help seeking behaviour.

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UCC Ireland Engineering@UCC has 6 academics on the list of Best Engineering & Technology Scientists in Ireland based on citation-based metrics collected on the 21-11-2023.

SEFS@UCC UCC IrelandResearch Science Foundation Ireland SEAI EPA Ireland Brian O Gallachoir

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Following a hugely successful workshop in Paris in April, today we held a sister event in UCC Ireland to talk about Celtic Interconnections and the Celtic Interconnector. #EnergyTransitions

“How to meaningfully engage the public in energy infrastructure projects”

New User-Centred Energy Systems TCP Policy Brief was published recently and Evan Boyle in #MaREI UCC Ireland was the Irish representative on this International Task.

Read here: bit.ly/3QKnGbS

Congratulations to Joe DeCarolis and all the team at EIA for this significant milestone in opening up energy systems modelling!

Research in #MaREI UCC Ireland is at the forefront of floating wind energy marei.ie/irish-research…

Green cement:

Aside from water, concrete is the most-used material in the world, with about 14 billion cubic metres being used every year. Of that, 40% is used to build places for people to live writes Jamie Goggins in #MaREI Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

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Stories of limited access to energy need to be told now more than ever.

New #EnergyPoverty paper reveals the critical gaps, the need for more context-specific work and more.

Huge thanks to Brian O Gallachoir Dr Niall Dunphy Clodagh Harris

#FuelPoverty #EnergyJustice

Where are the research gaps of the energy vulnerable?

New paper from PhD student Claudia in #MaREI UCC Ireland focuses on a systematic review of the lived experiences of the energy vulnerable.

Co-written with Brian O Gallachoir, Clodagh Harris & Dr Niall Dunphy
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