Dingle Hub

🥳A significant step forward for our ENPOWER pilot in Ireland 🇮🇪, showcasing sustainable energy practices tailored for local tourism and hospitality. 📅On October 23rd, 2024, the Corca Dhuibhne Tourism and Hospitality Sustainable Energy Community (SEC) launched its Energy Master Plan (EMP) at An Díseart, Dingle Peninsula. 📉Aiming to reduce the peninsula's tourism energy consumption by 75% and carbon footprint by 85%. ☀️Through collective efforts, businesses are already seeing benefits like energy cost savings, efficient appliance upgrades, and impactful solar PV installations. 📲ENPOWER's digital platform lets businesses join initiatives like the Solar PV Meitheal, enhancing energy resilience across the region. A big thank you to our partners Dingle Hub! 🔄💚Stay tuned for upcoming exciting news! 🔗 You can also subscribe to our newsletter! 👉 https://lnkd.in/d4qmN_4g #ENPOWER #energydemocracy #justtransition #EUGreenDeal #energyefficiency #EnergyCommunities #activeenergyconsumers #prosumers #sustainability #renewableenergy #energycitizen #energysystem #community #collaboration #partner #impact #society #demandresponse #datadriven #data

What is the State of Ireland’s Environment in 2024? Today we published the eighth State of the Environment Report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland. The report delivers the single most definitive evaluation of Ireland’s environment. I urge you to read this report: this is your country, your environment, and safeguarding it is not optional – it is essential. The protection of our environment is critical to our health and wellbeing, and is core to our economic success and the safety and prosperity of generations to come. What this report outlines, in stark detail, is that collectively we need to make transformational change to shift our society to a sustainable trajectory. In the 50 years that we have been members of the European Union, Ireland has been transformed. We now look back to a time when we had serious industrial pollution of our rivers, when we relied on over a hundred municipal dumps, when we burned smoky fuel in our cities – and we can never go back to that.  We have made immense progress as a nation. But what we may not recognise sufficiently is how much of this progress absolutely depends on the quality of our environment. We must ensure that the natural resources and environmental conditions essential to the economy and social wellbeing of Ireland are protected, or we risk undoing so much of our socioeconomic progress to date. Our membership of the EU and EU environmental legislation has been critically important in safeguarding our environment. In addition, the extensive monitoring systems we now have allow for a much better understanding of the complex issues facing us. Without this legislation and understanding, there is no question that Ireland’s environment would be substantially more degraded than it currently is. We now need a vision for our environment, so that our environmental performance matches our economic performance. But first, we need to acknowledge that the very lives we aspire to – healthy lives for ourselves and our families, the homes we live in, the jobs we do, the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the nature we walk and run through, swim and cycle in – all depend on the quality of our environment, the very environment that we continue to damage year on year. In this Report, we set out five priorities, which, if acted upon would move us in the right direction, namely: 📃      We urgently need a national policy position on the environment to align our actions; ✅      We must rigorously implement existing environmental plans and programmes and comply with environmental law; 🏭      We need to transform our energy, transport, food and industrial systems to achieve climate neutrality and drive down pollution; 💶      We must scale up investment in water, energy, transport and waste management infrastructure; 🏥      We must protect our environment to protect our health. Read the full report here:  https://bit.ly/SOER2024 #SOER2024

Hello Killarney❤️ Beautiful setting for our final EirGrid Group Energy Citizen Roadshow for this season. Join us this evening if you’re in the region in the The Brehon Hotel & Spa from 6.30-8.30pm. Joined as always by ESB Networks and Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) with special guest from Dingle Hub Find out more on https://lnkd.in/e5HcBwxe.

Deirdre De Bhailís (Dingle Hub) speaking at Smart Grid Ireland 2024 on the subject of "How digitisation can drive behaviour change". Deirdre de Bhailís, Teresa Fallon, Steve Heinen

Fantastic overview of the work in #Dingle by Deirdre de Bhailís, Mario Couto and Colm Foley . Showcasing work across the Farming, Tourism and Transport sectors in the peninsula. Dingle is a front-runner pilot for the ENPOWER project demonstrating the local impact and value of data-driven energy community initiatives.

Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General & CEO at World Energy Council calls for a collaboration in the fight against climate change at #GES24

🟡 When ownership meets ethics & inclusion, #energycommunities thrive! They are to rebuild trust & foster engagement through direct democracy, showing it's not just about money or the environment Read our new article written by Selene Verri https://lnkd.in/d4i4bUTz