The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland has issued a call for energy research, development and demonstration projects, including renewables, to share €1m in funding this year.
SEAI said the funding is intended to “accelerate new market solutions and overcome technical or other barriers in the move to a secure, clean energy future”.
It has invited proposals from private and public organisations for typical project funding of €20,000 to €100,000.
SEAI head of low carbon technologies Eimear Cotter said: “Ireland has a proven record in research and our Energy RD&D programme encourages collaborations between industry and academia which enables our researchers to look at new ways of sourcing energy, using energy or applying energy data.”
The Energy RD&D programme has been running since 2002 and in total €25.5m has been provided to energy research.
Recent projects supported include: a grant to Bord na Móna to help cultivate, harvest and evaluate bioenergy crops for biomass briquetting, pelletising and composting; and Kingspan’s 300 kilowatt solar PV system, the largest PV rooftop installation in Ireland.
Image: former projects include rooftop solar (sxc)
