Greater use of red-light cameras on Dublin roads inches closer
On Monday, the National Transport Authority published a tender looking for someone to help it plan and oversee the roll-out of red-light and speed cameras.
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What's put the brakes on plug-in solar in Ireland?
There's resistance from companies that stand to lose out, but there are also some real, but solveable, safety issues to get a handle on, say experts.
Due to delays, council’s district heating project wasn’t ready to warm Irish Glass Bottle apartments
So instead of being kept cosy with waste heat from the Poolbeg incinerator, the apartments are using heat pumps, the council project manager said Monday.
Council shoots down proposal for emergency solar panels on council homes before winter
Officials point to money, government grant rules – and GDPR.
Dublin District Heating scheme to connect to shiny North Docklands first, Ringsend much later
It’ll use waste heat from the Poolbeg incinerator, instead of fossil fuels, to warm buildings.
As profitable energy companies raise customers’ prices, TD says it’s time to bring back price regulation
“We are approaching the point (if we’re not already there) where we can justifiably claim that competition has failed,” says Labour energy spokesperson Ciarán Ahern.
No plans to look at installing solar panels on Fingal car parks anytime soon, council official says
Even though France requires them, England builds them, and Wicklow County Council installed some years ago.
As the rates electricity companies pay for power from rooftop solar panels fall, homeowners shrug
More likely to impact the rate of installations is a planned decrease from 1 January in government grants for the installation of panels.
Council Briefs: 106 social homes in Whitehall, and district heating in Coolock
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their North Central Area Committee.
Massive new “reversible rusting” batteries could help Ireland’s electricity grid shift away from fossil fuels
Their maker says they can sop up power when the wind is blowing and sun is shining and store it for up to 100 hours, feeding it back into the grid when needed.
In Coolock, a missed opportunity for a lower-cost, lower-carbon heating system for the area
Data centres in the Clonshaugh business park are producing extra heat, but it’s not being put to use warming homes and businesses nearby.
Council Briefs: Settling the route for north Dublin EirGrid cable, calming traffic at Hansfield Wood, and new homes in Mulhuddart
These were among the issues Fingal county councillors discussed at a recent meeting.
It’s time for community groups to start thinking about developing district-heating schemes, council official says
They could apply for operating licences, and grant funding, and help phase out fossil fuel boilers in homes in favour of a central, renewable-powered source of hot water.