Energy and Environment
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Achieving net gain from offshore wind farms
Andrew Edwards-Jones, social science researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), tells agendaNi about potential measures that could enable offshore wind…
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Storage required to manage renewable oversupply
If not proactively managed, curtailing renewable generation when there is more supply potential than demand could become a major barrier…
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Great British Energy Bill: Uncertainty remains over Northern Ireland implications
In its report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Great British Energy Bill, the Committee for the Economy has…
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Progress on the horizon for Northern Ireland’s renewable sector but now is not the time for complacency
It is an exciting time for the renewables sector in Northern Ireland, with some highly anticipated policy progress due to…
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Navigating Northern Ireland’s energy transition
A colleague of mine often talks about the energy transition by mis-quoting Star Trek’s Montgomery Scott: “Ye cannae change the…
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Integrating solar PV into the grid
Georgios Tzounas, Assistant Professor at University College Dublin (UCD), outlines the modelling, simulation, and control challenges that arise when solar…
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Building bridges: Innovating to keep the lights on
The Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy (CASE), set up by Invest NI, has been instrumental in helping Northern Ireland’s industry…
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Energy commitments in Programme for Government 2024-2027
With a total of 22 mentions, energy permeates the Executive’s Programme for Government (PfG) for 2024-2027, Our Plan: Doing What…
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Protecting and enhancing the Northern Ireland environment
Julie Thompson, head of the Environment, Marine, and Fisheries Group at the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA),…
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Investing in the future
As NIE Networks prepares to invest up to £4 billion upgrading Northern Ireland’s electricity network over the next decade, newly…
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