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The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten, 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