Power and Energy

carlcon

I am currently doing research for a project on "The Concept of Power" and I need to give reference to energy policies, both national and international. I'm struggling to find what decisions have been made by our government and what our govts priorites are. Any help????

carlcon

anyone?

Dirk Gently

Ireland is one of the most oil dependant countries in the world and there’s no sign of a change in that anytime soon. Any significant increase in oil prices will have a devastating effect on Ireland. There is talk of public transport converting to bio fuels but I've heard the percentages on efficiency are low for these fuels.
The recent green grants for wood pellets and solar panels in housing are for heat and water only. We are still dependant on ESB to supply our electricity. Also, even with the grants, they are still expensive to install and some existing homes may find them incompatible.
Check out the diy/ gardening section as there are a few threads on these issues.
Haven’t got all the figures on percentages of power from renewable sources and the potential percentages we could be achieving but a quick look through this forum and the diy will throw up alot of information because im sure ive seen these issues talked about in threads before and you will find links to relevant websites.

on the international side of it, check out sweden and iceland who are both aiming to be the worlds first oil free economys.

bonkey

carlcon wrote:

I need to give reference to energy policies, both national and international. I'm struggling to find what decisions have been made by our government and what our govts priorites are.

I'd imagine ESB's site is a good starting point regarding national decisions, as would be any other energy player (e.g. Eirtricity).

Internationally, I'd say you want to look at Kyoto first and foremost - cause there isn't much else out there at the moment.

As for the government's priorities....I'd guess the party site?

anyone?

Jeez dude...give it a bit more than 9 minutes.

jc

carlcon

cheers.. tanx a million.

piraka

Other sources nationally are the National Development Plan, National Climate Change Programme and Green paper on sustainable energy. We wait in anticipation for Minister Dempsey Energy Policy due out in June. The Eirgrid web site has a good documentation page, another site to visit is the Commission for Energy Regulation CER lots of documentation there too.

Eu - for renewables, now discussing ECCP II, European Climate Change Programme II, the direction the EU is now taking with renewable energy. I am not sure what international policies there but maybe there would be a follow through from the EU sites if you follow up on ECCP II

GOOD LUCK

silverharp

google the "hirsh report" I hav not read it but it is a Peak Oil report that was prepared for the US gov


these sites could be useful as they reference other info

www.powerswitch.org.uk

www.peakoil.ie

Anaiyela

Sustainable energy Ireland have a good website http://www.sei.ie/

They have a nice section about energy http://www.sei.ie/index.asp?locID=28&docID=-1

Check out their publications here http://www.sei.ie/index.asp?locID=3&docID=-1

and particularly this pdf http://www.sei.ie/index.asp?locID=3&docID=-1
Energy in Ireland 1990 - 2004, It is a comprehensive report of energy trends and issues

Good luck with the project!!

The Hill Billy

Try www.airtricity.com & www.cer.ie.

Anaiyela

Also have a look at the europa website for european policies and statistics
http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm

http://europa.eu.int/pol/ener/index_en.htm

Another good website is the international energy agency http://www.iea.org/

http://www.iea.org/Textbase/subjectqueries/index.asp

You should get some nice info and stats there

They have a page on all of their member countries where you can see individual stats and info for each country, Irelands page is here http://www.iea.org/Textbase/subjectqueries/countryresult.asp?country=IE&SubmitA=Submit

Anaiyela

Came across this today you might find it interesting

This report considers the measures to be taken to ensure the survival of the United Kingdom in a new century during which the world’s oil will run out.

http://www.after-oil.co.uk/

carlcon

just wanna say thank you to all of you for the feedback...

it's now finished so i'll just av to wait for the results...