Ireland will be ‘at the heart of the next industrial revolution’ in clean energy - Coveney

Ireland will be “at the heart of the next industrial revolution” in clean energy, despite having been “bypassed” by previous industrialisation cycles, the Minister for Enterprise has said.

Simon Coveney was speaking at the Offshore Wind Energy Conference at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre, where industry players and policymakers were convening to discuss the projected growth in the industry. It comes just one week after Ireland’s first offshore wind energy auction awarded contracts to several ...