Lisa Ryan gave a ted-style talk titled "Transition to a sustainable energy community" on September 30th on the main stage at an event hosted by the IRC on European researchers night in Trinity College Dublin. The talk was on an IRC enterprise project that Lisa and her colleague Orla Nic Suibhne are working on in partnership with SEAI called "The Energy Transition in a Rural Area: Becoming a Sustainable Energy".
O’Malley, M.J., “Energy Systems Integration and its role in integrating variable renewable energy”, Manchester Energy Seminar, University of Manchester, September 29th 2016.
Eoin Syron and Mark O'Malley were among the group of European and US scientists from academia, government and industry who participated in a workshop on "Understanding the water-energy nexus: integrated water and power system modelling". The workshop took place in Ispra, Italy on 28-29 September 2016 and was organised following the signing of a collaboration arrangement between the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the US Department of Energy earlier this year.
More information can be found on the US Department of Energy's website here and the European Commission's website here.
Lisa Ryan presented a paper at the Global Conference for Environmental Taxation Lisa Ryan presented a paper entitled "Energy efficiency policies for a forgotten sector" at the Global Conference for Environmental Taxation which was held in Groningen, the Netherlands, from 21-23 September 2016
The full ESIPP team met in UCD on 16th September. The ENERGY (no pun intended!) in the room was fantastic with over 40 members of the team in attendance. It was wonderful to formally welcome our new PhD Students on board.