It’s not easy being green – and blue

Professor Jerry Murphy of the MaREI Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy wants to see green energy being put to better use by the state, writes Graham Clifford

The ERI Beaufort Building at UCC;

Powerful, dynamic, malleable and near-constant, the elements associated with the blue economy promise so much to island nations such as ours. Generation of ‘green’ energy is only half the battle, though – what we do with it, is just as important.

At the MaREI Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy, research, development, and innovation are ongoing every day of the year.

Conducting fundamental scientific research relating to marine and renewable energy applications and ...