The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten T.D., is pleased to announce the allocation of €8 million in Government funding for 45 innovative and varied Energy Research Projects across Ireland.
The Energy Research Projects aim to develop solutions that will deliver cleaner energy in our homes, businesses and communities. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), is responsible for awarding and administering the fund to companies and research institutions nationwide.
Minister Denis Naughten said: “Research and innovation are central pillars of the Government’s National Energy and Climate Plan. I have secured increased levels of funding for investment in energy research but I am determined to see this fund grow significantly in the coming years. This type of government funding significantly helps businesses and research institutions in the energy sector in Ireland to conduct world class research that will create jobs, build capacity and support innovation in clean energy. I want to congratulate the teams behind the successful projects and I am looking forward to seeing their findings in due course.”
The 2018 Awarded Energy Research Projects are:
Project Title | Lead Organisation |
Agri Bio Circular Economy (ABC Economy) | UCD |
CAO IRL Coupled Atmosphere Ocean Wave Forecasts for Ireland | NUIG |
Mitigation of Air Pollution Impacts of Irish Heavy Duty Vehicles (MAP-HDV) | TCD |
DiSTRaCT: moDal ShifT Reduce Carbon in Transport | TCD |
Low Cost Monitoring and Control of Small Scale Renewables | Electricity Exchange DAC. |
Urban Building Energy Model | UCD |
Dublin Region Energy Masterplan | CODEMA |
Brightwind I-SEM Forecast | Brightwind Limited |
BIO-RPISM: biofuel production, digestate purification and CO2 sequestration with highly productive auto-floating microalgae technology | NUIG |
Reducing Energy Consumption in Air Filtration Systems (RECAFS) | TCD |
AgrigasGrid | Renewable Gas Forum Ireland |
Agricultural Energy Optimisation Platform (AEOP) | CIT |
Assessment of VentilAtion effectiveness via a Longitudinal indoor environmental study in ‘A’ rated Irish Dwellings: VALIDate | NUIG |
GEBTechTM (Green Energy Boosting Technology): A novel treatment for farm slurries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to generate energy | Westway Health |
Slurres Pilot | UL |
Building Upon Ireland’s National Renovation Strategy | Irish Green Building Council |
Robust Real-Time Wind Power Prediction and Early, Accurate Estimation of Downtime for Irish Wind Farms in an Integrated Single Electricity Market (Wind-PEarlAED) | UCD |
Retrokit 2.0 – A Cloud-Based Project Planning and Implementation Toolkit to Foster the Uptake of Deep Energy Retrofit in Housing. | XD Sustainable Energy Consulting Ltd |
Exploration of Air Source Heat Pumps for Ireland’s Residential Heating Needs | UCD |
Fundamental Information for Technology Commercialisation of Lignocellulosic Waste to Liquid Transportation Fuels by Acid Hydrolysis | TCD |
Quantifying Light Loss across Ireland and Identifying Patterns of Energy Use | TCD |
The Aeration In-Use Factor: The in-use aeration energy efficiency of two technologies in the wastewater treatment industry | NUIG |
Enhanced Controllers to Improve Wind Farm Efficiency | TCD |
Using Surplus Energy to generate Hydrogen; (USE H2) | DCU |
EnergyPOLITIES: Politico-institutional framing of collective engagements with the energy system | UCC |
Digi Blocks | CIT |
Next generation modular energy generating greenhouse (NGMEGG) | NUIG |
Using blockchains to facilitate renewable power generation: forecasting, hedging and tokenisation applications | UCD |
Biomass Practitioners Register | IrBEA |
Indoor air quality, ventilation and occupant comfort in Irish domestic dwelling’s pre and post Deep Energy renovations | NUIG |
Exergyn Heat Pump | Exergyn |
Enhancement of Inertial Stabilisation of the Electricity Grid using Local Electrochemical Processes for Load Levelling | UL |
Co-invest | Tipperary Energy Agency |
The True Cost of the Energy – Water Nexus in Manufacturing. | Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) |
Assessment Methodology Building Energy Ratings (AMBER) | IES R&D |
FactHP – In Use Factors for Heat Pumps and other energy technologies in Residential Buildings | LIT |
Role of Heterogenous Energy Storage in Paris Aligned Scenarios for the Irish Energy System | DCU |
Energy Renovation of Traditional Buildings – CPD roll-out | The Heritage Council |
Trinity Smart Grid | TCD |
Dundalk Virtual Energy Microgrid (DVEM) | Dundalk IT |
nZEB_101 | UCD |
FREMI (Forecasting Renewable Energy with Machine Intelligence) | SSE Airtricity |
Continuous Commissioning to Create High Performance Buildings | Inferrit Limited |
Identifying the relative and combined impact and importance of a range of curtailment mitigation options on high RES-E systems in 2030 & 2040 | Mullan Grid Consulting |
Support tools for community renewable energy | MaREI, UCC |