ESIPP/Energy Institute Podcasts

You can now listen to short podcasts from the some of the ESIPP research team who are based in the UCD Energy Instiute on the Energy Institute website. These podcasts provide brief overview (1-2 minutes) of the research being carried out following presentations at the Energy Institute / ESIPP Weekly Seminar Series. These will be updated as they become available.

Listen here (at the bottom of the page).

You can find more information about each of these researchers on the People page of the ESIPP Website.

ESIPP Images of Research Competition – Winners announced

We are delighted to announce or ESIPP Images of Research Compeyition winners. This is the first time we have run this competition which was open to all ESIPP team member. We received 14 entries to the competition and our panel of independent judges voted for the top 3 entrants. Congratulations to all our winners and all the entrants to the competition!

Winner

Cooling the Cloud - Jaakko McEvoy, PhD Student, Trinity College Dublin

Electricity Network and Generation INvEstment (ENGINE) model seminar at ESRI

Desta Fitiwi presented the Electricity Network and Generation INvEstment (ENGINE) model that has been under development in the ESRI on Thursday 14th March. The model can be used to answer different policy-related questions pertaining to the least-cost development of power systems in the island of Ireland and beyond. The presentation included insights from case studies on the whole island such as the best locations and quantities of electricity generation and transmission infrastructure under different policy scenarios (e.g. high datacentre rollout, north-south interconnector, high RES diversification, centralized vs decentralized RES development, storage, etc.).

For more information visit the event page on the ESRI website.

EPRI Forms European Subsidiary

We are delighted to see the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has formed a new business entity, EPRI Europe Limited, to expand its collaborative research and development programs in Europe, with headquaters in Dublin. EPRI are already collaborators on ESIPP and this development will enable increased colleboration into the future. 
For more information visit the EPRI website.

High Performance Building Design - what does the future hold?

ESIPP academic Dr. Donal Finn hosted an ASHRAE Ireland workshop in Engineers Ireland, Dublin on Monday 11th March. The event "High Performance Building Design - what does the future hold? An outlook towards 2030 for Ireland, Europe and the USA"  featured the ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer Tom Lawrence, as well as speakers from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and the Department of Communications Climate Action and the Environment (DCCAE), among others.