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ESB Put Almost €1.5bn Into Ireland's Energy Infrastructure in Six Months — and €20bn Is Coming by 2030
ESB invested €1,458 million in capital projects in the first half of 2026, up more than 16% year on year, with over €900m going into the electricity network and almost €500m into generation. It is the clearest sign yet of how fast Ireland's energy build-out is moving.
Passive House at Scale Wins the Night: Inside the Business Energy Achievement Awards 2026
Whitehaven in Santry — built by Tuath Housing, Cairn and MosArt — took both the Sustainable Construction and Building Performance Award and the Overall Energy Achievement Award on 16 September 2026, in a twenty-one category programme whose winners ran from Pfizer Newbridge to Coghlans Bakery.
Ireland Is Retrofitting Its Homes at Record Pace — But the Hard Part Is Only Just Beginning
Ireland has committed a record €640 million to home energy upgrades in 2026, with 58,128 retrofits completed in 2025 and applications up 96% in the first quarter of 2026. Dr Ciarán Byrne and the National Retrofit Directorate are now trying to turn scale into delivery.
The Team Quietly Retrofitting Ireland, One Home at a Time
Behind Ireland's national retrofit ambitions sits a genuinely large, ongoing operational effort — one company has already completed thousands of home energy upgrades, with a ten-year commitment to tens of thousands more.
Large Energy Users Now Account for 31% of Ireland's Electricity — And the Number Is Still Rising
On 4 June 2026, the CSO published a snapshot of key environmental indicators for Ireland to mark World Environment Day. Buried inside the data release was a figure that went relatively unreported despite its significance: large energy users accounted for 31% of total metered electricity consumption in Ireland in 2024. In 2015, that figure was 15%.
The Retrofit Programme That Could Decarbonise a Million Irish Homes — If We Fix It
Ireland has the most generous home energy upgrade grants in the country's history. It has a €558 million budget, a clear 2030 target and genuine political will. What it does not yet have is the pace. Here is what is working, what is not, and what needs to change.
Ireland's Electric Vehicle Revolution: Record Sales, A Growing Network and a 2030 Target Under Pressure
Ireland registered more electric cars in 2025 than in any previous year. Sales are accelerating sharply in 2026. But with 204,000 EVs on the road against a target of 936,000 by 2030, the gap between ambition and delivery remains significant.
Ireland's Offshore Wind Revolution: The Targets, The Projects and The Race Against Time
Ireland has some of the strongest wind resources in Europe, a legally binding 5GW offshore target by 2030 and planning applications submitted for 3.8GW of Phase One projects. Inside the Action Plan 2026, the Codling and Greystones builds, the south coast Tonn Nua substation package and the €18.9bn grid investment that will make or break the timeline.
Cork & South West: The Region Powering Ireland's Energy Transition
A new KPMG report puts hard numbers on what Cork and the South West already contribute to Ireland's energy transition — and what is needed next to unlock the region's full potential as a renewables and decarbonisation hub.
Ireland Opens Call for Evidence on Underground Hydrogen Storage — A Quiet Step With Big Implications
The Department has opened a Call for Evidence on underground hydrogen storage in Ireland. It looks technical, but it is one of the most consequential pieces of long-duration energy storage policy the country has put on the table.
The Irish Scientists Reading the Earth to Help Save It — Inside UCD's School of Earth Sciences
