Across Ireland, private individuals and small companies are looking to green their electricity sourcing, and plenty of roofs and sheds can support solar panels, micro windmills, or both. But the learning curve is steep to apply for planning permission, subsidies, installation and hooking up the system to the electricity grid and working out buy-back arrangement deals with the ESB. What is needed is a company that will lease out solar panels and micro wind turbines and make all arrangements. The consumer applies to have electricity generating equipment installed, the company does so after making all preparations and arrangements, and 25% of generated electricity goes to the property owner while 75% of generated electricity goes to the lease company to pay back its investment. The property owner gets a lowered energy bill without investment cost or administrative hassle, the lease company eventually makes a good income, green energy is generated for the country, and electricity input More...

Electric motorway that uses an electromagnetic field to induce charge or to propel vehicles along. Be it new electric vehicles which may only have limited speed and range will have the benefit of been able to travel motorway at speeds of up to 120 km/ph while topping up their charge to allow them to go further off motorway. Or Existing vehicles that can have a modification made that will allow them to switch from fossil fuel while on the motorway. Renewable and sustainable energy can ensure 0 carbon emissions. Electric motoring is reported to cost as little as 1p per mile. This system can be easily installed by incorporating a road cutting saw, Track decoiler, asphalt dispenser and a road surface finisher on a 40 ft rig. Distances of between 10 and 50 KM of road could be laid in a day and as only one lane would require the track minimum disruption would be caused to the public. The vehicle modification could be produced in mass in Ireland and be fitted by registered garages around t More...

We have some of the finest renewable energy & precipitation sources in the world. We also have some of the mot beautiful scenery in the world. However most of these resorces remain unharvested & when we eventually do start generating from renewable sources our infrastructure is not good enough to make power export a viable option. We could feasably export water but at times we can't even cope with our own water needs. Our beautiful scenery can often be only seen safely by car as we have no footpaths or cycle lanes and the scenery is scared by the proliferation of telephone & electric cables on telegraph poles. We also have a massive human resourse out of work in the construction industry. The Utilities Interlink is proposed to provide a realistic and achievable system to link utilities to all our towns and cities while providing cycle lanes & footpaths. At the moment all our utilities follow there own tracks around the country. However all centres of population are linked More...

We have some of the finest renewable energy & precipitation sources in the world. We also have some of the mot beautiful scenery in the world. However most of these resorces remain unharvested & when we eventually do start generating from renewable sources our infrastructure is not good enough to make power export a viable option. We could feasably export water but at times we can't even cope with our own water needs. Our beautiful scenery can often be only seen safely by car as we have no footpaths or cycle lanes and the scenery is scared by the proliferation of telephone & electric cables on telegraph poles. We also have a massive human resourse out of work in the construction industry. The Utilities Interlink is proposed to provide a realistic and achievable system to link utilities to all our towns and cities while providing cycle lanes & footpaths. At the moment all our utilities follow there own tracks around the country. However all centres of population are linked More...

The proposal is to install large scale photovoltaic electricity generation on existing windfarm sites in order to maximise the amount of green electricity from the site. As the wind tends not to blow when the sun is shining and vice versa the same grid connection can be shared between the different types of generation. This means no new transmission lines will be needed.

This proposal is for the creation of regional energy development teams who work with local communities, business and farmers to organise and develop their potential to generate and supply their own energy using locally available bio-energy and micro power generation.

The proposal is to install large scale solar photovoltaic generation on existing windfarms sites to maximise the amount of renewable generation from the existing sites. No new transmission lines would be needed as the sun doesn't tend to shine when wind production is high and vice versa. By setting the ratio of wind to solar correctly the grid connection could be used more efficiently than just having pure wind connected.

Promote community development of local electricity power generation (based on waste firing supplemented with bio-fuel) combined with provision of a hot water utility service to improve overall average energy efficiency from approx. 45% for electricity generation alone to 85%: This proposal will create nationwide local employment, reduce the reliance on an overstretched national electricity grid system, reduce waste disposal costs and position the country for the future with less reliance on external fossil fuel and electricity supply in an environmental climate where the cost of fossil fuels continues to increase while availability of resources dwindles. Other advantages include the possibility of use of NAMA owned partially complete construction sites, increased electricity generation competition, the phase out of existing, outdated, inefficient, power generation plants, cheaper power and hot water supply utility providing a cheaper alternative for home heating, reduced reliance on More...

As a reaction to the forecasted oil crisis, the proposal is an advancement of the most economical method of storing renewable energies, which is pumped storage. The use of this method is constrained by geography, needing a landmass to support the upper reservoir of the system and a lower reservoir of water. The proposal is a built structure to remove this constraint allowing the method to be used anywhere with a lower body of water. A monument that provides psychological benefit to the country, symbolising empowerment through harnessing our own abundant natural resources and reversing a long held dependency. Attachment to the poolbeg towers show that the utilities that drive our economy also serve to anchor our social fabric.

I propose a way to save energy costs, generate €3bn of internal investment and significantly reduce reliance on energy imports.