Urgent action is required to mitigate the risks of disruption to energy and transport infrastructure due to climate change, according to a new report.

The IDA briefing said that traditional drivers of investment like market access, tax, and talent were still important.

A new sale could value Energia Group at more than €2 billion including debt

Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty mentioned a warning by the secretary general of the Energy Department.

Wind Energy Ireland chief executive Noel Cunniffe has said the Government needs to act during a ‘decisive window’.

In her own objection to the centre, Sally Rooney told the Council that “I urge you in the strongest possible to refuse planning permission for this wasteful, unnecessary and environmentally toxic proposal”.

Edwin Poots said comments by Caoimhe Archibald in relation to the north south interconnector were not ‘appropriate’.

The ESRI released a new report on the current energy efficiency status of buildings in the private rental sector in Ireland.

Sinn Féin, Social Democrats and Aontú are all calling for an early return of the Dáil.

Minister Dara Calleary said he understood people’s ‘frustration’ and that authorities were ‘working as hard as possible’.

Stormont ministers have written to the PM expressing concerns over means testing the payments.

Data centres used up a greater share of electricity consumption than urban homes in the Republic last year

This is the fifth time this year that Yuno has cut its rates.

The Climate Change Advisory Council has warned that renewable electricity generation in Ireland is ‘significantly below required increase’.

The Government is putting €500 million behind a new low-cost an energy upgrade loan scheme for homeowners

The planning application includes the construction of two HFO tanks each with a capacity of 25,000 tonnes and the construction phase will result in the creation of 90 to 100 jobs.

Flogas has become the latest energy company to announce it will reduce its prices

Customers to benefit from 7.5% reduction in electricity and 5% in gas from March 1st

Wind Energy Ireland’s annual report stated the country saved €918 million on gas through wind energy in 2023

Electricity and gas rates will fall by 8 and 7 per cent respectively

Eamon Ryan said new low-cost loans would be a ‘game changer’ in enabling people to upgrade the energy efficiency of their homes.

The Green Party leader said that investing in green energy capital projects was ‘a hell of a lot cheaper than relying on imported fossil fuels’

Finance Minister Michael McGrath said there was ‘a lot of volatility’ in wholesale energy prices

Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman previously pledged to halve childcare fees across two years.

Energy companies have faced renewed political pressure to on falling wholesale energy prices to customers

Fingal County Council has given the go-ahead for three new Amazon Web Services data centres in Dublin 15

The price cut is the most significant yet out of all the energy providers

Leo Varadkar and Eamon Ryan, met with Ireland’s four largest energy retailers to express concern at ‘persistently high’ energy prices.

Domestic electricity rates will fall 12 per cent, while gas rate will drop 10 per cent

The company said an error had occurred which had capped some meters at a £10 credit limit.

Energia is decreasing its standard unit rate of electricity by 15% and its gas unit rate by 20%

The price change will take effect from October 1st

Wholesale electricity prices have fallen by 64 per cent in July compared to last year

Wind Energy Ireland said the planning system is ‘seriously underfunded’

Yuno Energy is offering households the choice of either a fixed tariff for one year or a variable-rate tariff

Fr Paul Byrne and the parish committee in Termonfeckin decided to install the s after seeing their electricity bills spiral

Court hears a vehicle of beef tycoon Larry Goodman could inject significant capital for a pivot away from fossil fuel exploration towards green energy

Two new transformers installed at the site in Clonee, Co Meath were not properly set up for billing

The Finance Minister said energy bills are ‘unavoidable costs’ for households.

The event at Government Buildings in Dublin brought together private, public and voluntary stakeholders in the energy sector.

Wholesale electricity prices fell by 35% in June compared to the same month last year

Minister for Finance Michael McGrath said companies needed to adjust their prices in response to a decrease in wholesale costs

Overall consumer prices in Ireland were 46 per cent above the EU average in 2022

The company said the decision to temporarily close its Co Meath site had been taken in the face of ‘tremendous unsustainable losses’.

Leo Varadkar said data centres are important for the economy as 100,000 people work in the tech sector across the country.

The Government aims to generate 80 per cent of the State's electricity from renewable sources by 2030

The projects are the Western Star floating wind farm on the west coast

Food prices are estimated to have increased by 0.4 per cent in the last month and are up by 12.5 per cent in the last 12 months.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said other extensions of the hot school meals programme would be prioritised first

The survey also found that almost two thirds of parents had cut back on or went without social activities for their children.