Renewable energy awards show wind is powering ahead

More than 300 people from renewable energy companies gathered in Dublin last week to showcase and celebrate those paving the way for a carbon-free future in Ireland, writes Siobhán Maguire

From left: Peter Harte, chairman, IWEA; Richard Bruton, Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment; and David Connolly, chief executive, IWEA

Did you know that wind energy in Ireland provided 30 per cent of the country’s electricity for the first time in 2018? And that renewable electricity saved Ireland three million tons of carbon emissions ...