A west Cork company is hoping to develop a major bio-park facility in Waterford.

Rapid economic growth places unique challenges on Ireland as it seeks to meet its future energy needs as well as its Kyoto emissions targets.

NOW Ireland – The National Offshore Wind Energy Association of Ireland - has welcomed the commissioning of a study to test the feasibility of a new electricity interconnection between Ireland and Scotland.

IFA Farm Forestry Chairman Pat Hennessy has welcomes the announcement that biomass gasification boilers will be included in Phase III of the Greener Homes Scheme from the 22nd July.

Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Mr. Seán Power TD has announced that he has decided to extend the area to be opened for licensing in the 2009 Rockall Licensing Round to include the north-western margin of the Rockall Basin.

UK scientists have built a giant rubber snake which can generate electricity by harnessing the power of waves.

Driven by the gathering sense of a climate crisis, the notion of 'green jobs' - especially in the renewable energy sector - is now receiving unprecedented attention.

The European Parliament has supported the liberalisation of the gas market by adopting reports that - though reaching out to countries opposed to 'full ownership unbundling' (the separation of gas suppliers from gas transmission networks) - place strict conditions on companies that do not unbundle.

European energy ministers have backed away from the EU's biofuels for transport target, admitting a gross confusion on their part in which they said they had been misreading policy documents since the target was initially proposed eighteen months ago.

A survey of employees' home and workplace energy use has revealed that office equipment eats up energy at twice the rate of home equipment.