eolas magazine: Informing Ireland's decision makers
23rd June 2026
ESB hosted experts from across the energy sector for a discussion on innovating for a secure, sustainable, and affordable energy system. What one current innovation shows […]
9th May 2026
Michelle Quinn, director of offshore wind at the Scottish Government, talks to Ciaran Brennan about how Scotland has been successful in delivering offshore wind, its aims […]
27th February 2026
The Government’s National Residential Retrofit Plan 2026 sets out an expanded, system-wide programme to accelerate home energy upgrades, reduce emissions, and improve energy affordability, backed by […]
27th February 2026
Stephen Brophy, principal officer leading the public sector and enterprise energy efficiency section at the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment, talks to Ciaran Brennan […]
27th February 2026
Bebhinn Kennedy, project officer at the TUS Sustainable Development Research Institute, discusses how TUS is developing bio-based retrofit solutions and how they can be applied to […]
27th February 2026
Empathy-led design can encourage people to retrofit their homes in a way that current measures are failing to achieve, Steve Hall, political economist of energy futures […]
27th February 2026
Janez Kren of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) discusses the energy efficiency of Ireland’s private rental housing stock, the cost of upgrading it, and […]
27th February 2026
Carlos Ochoa, senior researcher at the Tyndall National Institute, outlines how the EU-funded DigiFab project aims to accelerate energy retrofitting across Europe through digitalisation, prefabrication, and […]
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 […]