eolas magazine: Informing Ireland's decision makers
5th January 2026
Ireland cannot meet its power sector decarbonisation targets while simultaneously maintaining or upscaling data centre development and the Government must set strategic priorities to address this […]
31st October 2025
Cecilia Trasi, Senior Policy Advisor at ECCO, an energy and climate change thinktank based in Milan, explores the ramifications of the Trump administration’s ‘America first’ agenda, […]
30th October 2025
RESS 5 procurement of renewable generation capacity is 19 per cent lower than RESS 4, stifling government efforts to achieve 17GW of renewable energy generation by […]
30th October 2025
The Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment has published a proposal for a National Designated Maritime Area Plan (DMAP) for Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) to […]
21st August 2025
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) Chief Executive William Walsh speaks to eolas Magazine about the organisation’s expanding role in driving the decarbonisation of Ireland’s […]
18th June 2025
An EU regulation mandating the promotion of the use of renewable, low-carbon fuels, and clean energy technologies for ships has entered effect. The FuelEU Maritime Regulation, […]
17th June 2025
In an exclusive interview with eolas Magazine, ESB Chief Executive Paddy Hayes underscores ESB’s commitment to its net zero by 2040 journey, tracks its progress to […]
17th June 2025
The Climate Change Advisory Council has said that the Government and the regulator “must ensure that electricity suppliers offer customers price plans that allow them to […]
16th June 2025
As the Shared Island initiative enters a new phase, Ciarán Galway meets with Émer Deane – the Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Taoiseach with […]
16th May 2025
As Ireland accelerates its journey toward a decarbonised energy system, the transformation of the national gas network plays a critical role in delivering a cleaner, more […]
16th May 2025
Speaking to eolas Magazine, Katja Yafimava, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, offers a deep dive into the European Union’s decarbonised gas […]
16th May 2025
Ines Bouacida, a senior researcher at the International Sustainability Standards Research Institute (ISSRI), speaks to eolas Magazine about France’s plans for biomethane and hydrogen; a cornerstone […]
16th May 2025
A new research report published by the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) examines four key aspects of Ireland’s energy transition which are important for national […]
16th May 2025
As a leading provider of energy solutions in Ireland, Calor is at the forefront of the nation’s energy transition, particularly in rural areas. The company’s strategy […]
16th May 2025
Containing specific aims for hydrogen and evidence of application of the National Hydrogen Strategy published in 2023, the 2025 Programme for Government (PfG) demonstrates a clearer […]
16th May 2025
As part of Ireland’s commitment to reduce emissions by 51 per cent by 2030, the Government’s Climate Action Plan sets a target of 5.7 TWh of […]
16th May 2025
Climate Action Plan 2025 (CAP25) has not changed any of the overriding statutory or strategic targets for the production and integration of green hydrogen or biomethane […]
16th May 2025
Green Growth Deputy Director at the North’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Jonathan McFerran, talks about the steps the Northern Ireland agriculture industry is […]
25th February 2025
Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) hosted a round table discussion at its Parkgate Street headquarters in Dublin, assembling stakeholders from across the energy and transport sectors, including […]
25th February 2025
Installed in a sleek, minimalist boardroom at Bord Gáis Energy’s Warrington Place headquarters, facing onto Dublin’s Grand Canal, Managing Director, Dave Kirwan speaks with eolas Magazine […]
24th February 2025
February 2025 marked a quarter of a century since the liberalisation of Ireland’s electricity market. In this context, Ciarán Galway sits down with ESB’s Head of […]
24th February 2025
In late February 2025, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) published a much-anticipated proposed decision paper on Large Energy Users Connection Policy. While cautiously welcomed […]
24th February 2025
Barry Quinlan, Assistant Secretary at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) with responsibility for built environment, retrofit, and heat policy, tells eolas Magazine […]
24th February 2025
Paul Kenny, Director General of the European Heat Pump Association, talks to eolas Magazine about the role of heat pumps in Europe’s energy future, emphasising Ireland’s […]
24th February 2025
While significant progress has been made towards the State’s residential retrofit targets, these are challenged by financial, structural, and policy-related obstacles. Accelerating delivery will depend on […]
24th February 2025
Behavioural economist Evelina Gunnarsson discusses the application of behavioural insights to encourage energy efficient renovations. “By combining a system approach with behavioural insight, we can tackle […]
24th February 2025
Five years since the introduction of retrofit targets of 500,000 homes to ‘B2’ BER standard or above, the Government has retrofitted approximately 55,893 homes to said […]
24th February 2025
The Planning and Development Act has added a new dimension to the challenge of meeting Ireland’s infrastructure requirements. In late 2024, Irish planning legislation saw its […]
6th January 2025
Bord na Móna hosted a round table discussion at the Mountlucas Wind Farm, County Offaly, inviting key stakeholders from the public and private sector representing large […]
6th January 2025
Public visibility of training provision and job opportunities are critical to ensure Ireland can match up its growing need for skills to meet the ambitious demands […]
6th January 2025
The development of a new heat network authority will provide national oversight for the development of district heating networks in Ireland, forthcoming legislation has proposed. In […]
7th November 2024
Hitachi Energy hosted a round table discussion with key stakeholders from across the energy sector to examine how the twin transitions of digitalisation and decarbonisation can […]
13th September 2024
As Ireland sits on the cusp of its energy future, eolas Magazine visits Hitachi Energy Ireland’s Dublin city centre office and sits down with Local Sales […]
12th September 2024
The newly-published draft South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan (DMAP) has identified four proposed areas off the south coast for offshore wind projects. The four maritime […]
11th September 2024
The Government has set ambitious targets for sectoral emissions reductions, and I have recognised that central to success is the role that the agriculture sector and […]
11th September 2024
Gas Networks Ireland has embarked on an ambitious journey to fully decarbonise Ireland’s gas network by 2045. This transformation will involve repurposing and resizing existing gas […]
11th September 2024
The publication of Ireland’s first major policy statement on biomethane marks an important milestone in an overarching ambition to develop a sustainable industry of scale by […]
11th September 2024
To meet our climate targets, the global economy must reach net zero emissions by 2050. While it is anticipated that much of this will be facilitated […]
11th September 2024
It is essential to transform Ireland’s energy system to achieve its goal of a climate-neutral economy by 2050 whilst also ensuring that the energy system is […]
11th September 2024
As an enabler of the publication of Energy Security in Ireland to 2030, in November 2023 the Government released a research paper examining the security of […]
11th September 2024
Following the publication of the National Biomethane Strategy, Barry Quinlan – whose remit as Assistant Secretary at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) […]
11th September 2024
To make sure that everyone can play their part in Ireland’s energy transition, Duncan Osborne, CEO of Calor, explains the critical need for current and future […]
11th September 2024
Amid energy security challenges, MaREI Director and Associate Vice-President of Sustainability at University College Cork (UCC), Brian Ó Gallachóir has recommended the establishment of an all-island […]
11th September 2024
Two years since the launch of REPowerEU, the European Commission states that €18 billion has been spent in helping the EU meet its biomethane targets. Under […]
11th September 2024
Ireland must seize the opportunity to create a sustainable biomethane industry in order to meet its climate targets, writes Kevin Fitzduff, Managing Director of Stream BioEnergy. […]
29th April 2024
Ireland’s ambition to become a superpower in offshore wind energy is adrift in a sea of regulatory constraints, writes Fine Gael Midlands–North-West MEP Colm Markey. Despite […]
29th April 2024
Ireland is committed to playing its full part in EU and global efforts to stop climate change and, in so doing, harnessing the opportunities and rewards […]
29th April 2024
A decarbonised gas network will help reduce emissions, support the achievement of Ireland’s climate ambitions and secure Ireland’s energy security with least disruption. The gas network […]
29th April 2024
A MaREI researcher has hypothesised that in a scenario whereby the State meets its net zero targets, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will account for approximately 24 […]
29th April 2024
In December 2023, Bord na Móna marked a key milestone in the company’s history and the final step of its brown to green journey by using […]
29th April 2024
Germany’s Ambassador to Ireland, Cord Meier-Klodt, speaks with Ciarán Galway about cooperation to unlock Ireland’s enormous offshore renewable energy potential and deliver on Germany’s similarly massive […]
29th April 2024
Faced with significant challenges in establishing a secure and sustainable energy system, Ireland requires a united effort across the private sector, regulators, and the State. Bord […]
29th April 2024
Hydrogen use will become “an important lever” in the transport sector after projected advances in technology, production, and storage capacity, and will be particularly prominent in […]
29th April 2024
Hydrogen Europe’s infrastructure and energy policy director Kamila Waciega discusses the path for Ireland’s green hydrogen market and the challenges regarding infrastructure development. Hydrogen is one […]
29th April 2024
Meadhbh Connolly, Future Opportunities Manager at ESB, explains why the decarbonisation of the electricity system requires more than just renewable energy generation and how ESB is […]
29th April 2024
Ireland’s climate targets for the transport sector, as defined by both the Climate Action Plan and EU requirements under the European Green Deal, hinge on the […]
29th April 2024
Energia Group’s Long Mountain wind farm is the first in Ireland and the UK to produce green hydrogen on-site and highlights the potential for hydrogen in […]
29th April 2024
Ciarán Galway speaks with the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce’s interim Chief Executive Officer, Alexandra Voss, about developing a sustainable and longstanding hydrogen partnership between […]
29th April 2024
The European Commission states Ireland’s National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) is not adequate if the State is to play its role in helping the EU […]
29th April 2024
The recovery of black-bin waste that cannot be reused or recycled to produce energy in the form of electricity is not a new concept. What is […]
29th April 2024
The European Commission has published the results of the first EU-wide hydrogen bank pilot auction. On 30 April 2024 the results of the European Hydrogen Bank’s […]
19th February 2024
It has often been said: “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” On 23 December 2023, the climate solutions and renewable energy company, Bord na Móna, completed […]
16th February 2024
Barry Quinlan, the Assistant Secretary leading the Energy function with responsibility for Built Environment, Retrofit and Heat Policy at the Department of the Environment, Climate and […]
16th February 2024
UCD energy economist Lisa Ryan outlines some of the research being undertaken to understand household attitudes to adopting heat pumps. Highlighting a context whereby many countries […]
16th February 2024
Vincent Brennan, estates manager, HSE Capital and Estates’ Deep Retrofit Programme, outlines the progress being made with the programme and how other public and private sector […]
16th February 2024
Leading energy experts have argued that aligning energy efficiency investments to the achievement of a ‘B2’ BER standard is a necessary but not sufficient condition for […]
16th February 2024
In the latest Climate Action Plan update (CAP24), the Government has retained its targets on retrofitting. Overall, the plan claims that it provides a “roadmap towards […]
15th December 2023
Hitachi Energy is advancing a sustainable energy future for all by integrating renewable sources into the next generation of energy systems. The significance of transportation in […]
15th December 2023
Brian Ó Gallachóir, Associate Vice-President for Sustainability at University College Cork (UCC), assesses whether worrying electricity generation inadequacy necessitates an all-island focus on energy security. Ó […]
15th December 2023
Up to 900MW of renewable electricity is set to be secured in 2025 under a new plan for offshore wind development off Ireland’s south coast. The […]
15th December 2023
As the European Union seeks to reform the electricity market, Eurelectric’s Savannah Altvater discusses the critical components she believes must underpin market design fit for net […]
15th December 2023
A floating natural gas storage facility and increased oil reserves are to be considered in the Government’s plan to increase energy security. Energy Security in Ireland […]
15th December 2023
The EU is predicting that circa 14 per cent of energy consumption across Europe will be from hydrogen by 2050, while it is expected to between […]
15th December 2023
As Ireland navigates to net zero, low-carbon flexible thermal will be essential in keeping the lights on, writes Catherine Raw, Managing Director of SSE Thermal. We […]
15th December 2023
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for environment and climate action, Darren O’Rourke TD, talks to Joshua Murray about the party’s vision for a “just and ambitious” energy transition. […]
15th December 2023
Global expert in energy market reform, Todd Bessemer, questions whether the dramatic increase of non-synchronous renewables onto energy systems across the globe requires a greater focus […]
2nd November 2023
Emissions from rail have risen by an annual average of 0.6 per cent in the past two decades globally, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports. In […]
2nd November 2023
The National Hydrogen Strategy, published in July 2023, outlines how hydrogen can be used for the rail sector in areas where electrification – the primary mean […]
30th August 2023
Paul Münnich, Project Manager for Agora Industry, outlines the scale of the challenge in decarbonising the industrial sector in Germany. Münnich contextualises that the German energy […]
30th August 2023
The decarbonisation of Ireland’s energy system and economy is a key priority for the Government in tackling the climate crisis, writes Minister for the Environment, Climate […]
30th August 2023
Gas Networks Ireland operates and maintains Ireland’s €2.7 billion, 14,664km national gas network, which is considered one of the safest and most modern renewables-ready gas networks […]
30th August 2023
Caroline Kuzemko, Reader in International Political Economy at the University of Warwick and co-chair and co-founder of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Research Network […]
30th August 2023
Long awaited by many in the energy sector, the National Hydrogen Strategy was launched by Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport, […]
30th August 2023
Bord Gáis Energy has welcomed the publication of the Government’s recently published National Hydrogen Strategy as a keystone to Ireland becoming a green-energy powerhouse. The National […]
30th August 2023
Barry Quinlan, Assistant Secretary, Energy – built environment, retrofit and heat policy at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, speaks to eolas Magazine about […]
30th August 2023
In the pursuit of a sustainable future, Ireland stands at a crossroads, facing the challenges of combating climate change while ensuring an equitable transition for everyone, […]
30th August 2023
Ireland’s lack of energy security is topical, and self-sufficiency is an area of particular weakness. While a government decision to end the issuing of new licences […]
30th August 2023
EU member states agreed in March 2023 on the European Council’s position on the proposed hydrogen and decarbonised gas market package, with a market shift targeted […]
30th August 2023
Anouk Honoré, Senior Research Fellow at The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies says that while the European gas market is in much better position than a […]
30th August 2023
EU member states and the European Council agreed their negotiating positions on proposals to set common internal markets rules for renewable and natural gases and hydrogen […]
9th May 2023
To set the context for the discussion, we start by asking Pádraig about ESB’s plans for the development of greenhydrogen production and storage in Ireland. […]
9th May 2023
The European energy market is struggling to ensure a sustainable price and supply of energy for consumers partially, though not exclusively, due to the Russian invasion […]
9th May 2023
Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications Ossian Smyth TD discusses actions by the Government to mitigate security of supply concerns, […]
9th May 2023
Following the conclusion of its public consultation, the second Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (OREDP II) is set to take Ireland a step closer towards an […]
4th May 2023
Ahead of the imminent publication of the hydrogen strategy for Ireland, Energy Minister Eamon Ryan TD comments on its significance and balancing stakeholder confidence with a […]
4th May 2023
Transitioning to clean hydrogen can be accelerated with the help of leading-edge technologies. Accenture’s Catherine O’Brien, hydrogen fellow at the World Economic Forum, and Aoife Aherne, […]
4th May 2023
In anticipation of the Government’s forthcoming unveiling of Ireland’s national hydrogen strategy, Odrán Waldron speaks with hydrogen experts Rory Monaghan and James Carton to ascertain what […]
4th May 2023
Ireland is on the path to net zero. The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act of 2021 sets out that the country must reach net […]
4th May 2023
The headline provision for hydrogen contained within Climate Action Plan 2023 is the revision of Ireland’s offshore wind targets, with 7GW now to be operational by […]
4th May 2023
Assistant Professor in Sustainable Energy at Dublin City University, James Carton, speaks to eolas Magazine about Power-to-X and the shape that Ireland’s potential hydrogen economy could […]